On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 06:20, Kevin Jardine <kevinjard...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Had problem with deprecated package, was told my only option was to wipe > my Haskell install and start over. Is this true and if so, doesn't this > mean that Cabal (or the package management system that it is a part of) is > broken? > http://ivanmiljenovic.wordpress.com/2010/03/15/repeat-after-me-cabal-is-not-a-package-manager/ (in short: yes, it's broken, and probably not fixable. cabal is a friendlyish wrapper for ghc-pkg, which is not a package manager in the sense many people want it to be, and it never will be.) Something *really* needs to be done about its absurd willingness to blindly override bootlibs and thereby break things, though. -- brandon s allbery allber...@gmail.com wandering unix systems administrator (available) (412) 475-9364 vm/sms
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