[Haskell-cafe] Info on dependencies among libs distributed with ghc?

[Carter Schonwald]

yup. go crazy :)


On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 12:11 PM, Magnus Therning <magnus at therning.org>wrote:

> I'm working on the packaging of Ghc for Arch Linux and the packaging
> of Ghc 7.8 was in place about a week ago.  It was delivered with
> `Cabal` 1.18, and already now there's a 1.20 available, which is
> required by the latest version of `cabal-install` :(
>
> Ghc 7.8 comes with quite a few other basic libraries.  Are there any
> dependencies between these libraries besides the obvious one on
> `base`?
>
> In other words, can I update Cabal without running into the
> diamond-dependency problem?
>
> /M
>
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