[Haskell-cafe] Hiding platform packages in Cabal sandboxes

[Brandon Allbery]

On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 9:07 AM, Sven Panne <svenpanne at gmail.com> wrote:

> And for other packages I even have to add several --constraint flags,
> because they depend on several locally modified packages. This seems a
> bit weird. Is this the recommended workflow? How do other maintainers
> of platform packages handle this? What one *actually* wants is hiding
> some of the globally exposed packages while being in the sandbox
> (--constraint and --force-reinstalls could go away then), but I've
> found no way to do that.
>

As I understand it, ghc doesn't give cabal enough hooks into its package
management to do it properly. I'd be looking at hsenv to set up a sandboxed
ghc instead.

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