On 11-08-25 10:42 AM, Bertram Felgenhauer wrote:
(or rebuild Cabal / cabal-install starting with
'cabal unpack Cabal; cabal unpack cabal-install')
Replacing Cabal will break bin-package-db.
Breaking bin-package-db will break ghc (the GHC API).
"Break" means you likely don't run into problems right now, but several
weeks later, you try to "cabal install" a package that depends on some
of the above, and you get a nonsensical error message, and you don't
even suspect it all started with replacing a package several weeks ago
(you likely even forget that you did it).
See my http://www.vex.net/~trebla/haskell/sicp.xhtml , in particular the
"pigeon drop con" scenerio.
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