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

[Magnus Therning]

On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 06:01:33PM -0400, Carter Schonwald wrote:
> yup. go crazy :)

What other packages that are shipped with Ghc can I update without
running into the diamond-dependency problem?

Package          | Safe to update
=================================
Cabal            | ✓
array            | 
base             | 
bin-package-db   | 
binary           | 
bytestring       | 
containers       | 
deepseq          | 
directory        | 
filepath         | 
ghc-prim         | 
haskell2010      | 
haskell98        | 
hoopl            | 
hpc              | 
integer-gmp      | 
old-locale       | 
old-time         | 
pretty           | 
process          | 
rts              | 
template-haskell | 
time             | 
transformers     | 
unix             | 

/M

> 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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