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

[Herbert Valerio Riedel]

On 2014-04-23 at 00:12:25 +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote:
>>> Alternatively it might be possible to build ghc with a newer
>>> Cabal. Not
>>> sure what that might break.
>> 
>> Right that should work I guess.
>
> can anyone comment on the chances of this to work? It seems that this
> would be a good way to solve the problem for the distributions.

you'd probably need to backport commits such as

  git.haskell.org/ghc.git/commitdiff/8992d5269804b727fb77249511e89df678526907

but other than that it would work