[jhc] darcs patch: Get Data.Typeable to compile

[John Meacham]

Well, it depends. Ideally what I want is for the 'jhc' distribution to
contain just the haskell' libraries (once they are finalized) which will
likely be much smaller than the current extended 'base' that ghc uses,
so I don't want to get in the habit of importing code from the ghc repo
in large quantities.

that said, for practical reasons, and since a lot of the stuff in ghc
base isn't separately packaged, I do need some way to make it available.
I think what would be best is to have the current 'base' library just
contain a fairly minimal base, what we expect to be in haskell' or what
is jhc specific enough to be interesting.as well as what is enough to
build 'haskell98'. then create another 'base-extras' library which will
contain mostly unchanged code from the ghc repo that is in ghc's base.
like System.Console.GetOpts can probably go there.

        John

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