Limiting size of global package database

2014-12-31 Thread Michael Snoyman
tl;dr: Now that ghc (the library) doesn't depend on Cabal (the library), can we remove Cabal from the global package database installed with GHC? A problem that comes up quite a bit for users of GHC is conflicting package versions versus the version of a package that shipped with GHC. Some

Re: Limiting size of global package database

2014-12-31 Thread Herbert Valerio Riedel
Hello Michael, On 2014-12-31 at 15:10:37 +0100, Michael Snoyman wrote: tl;dr: Now that ghc (the library) doesn't depend on Cabal (the library), can we remove Cabal from the global package database installed with GHC? [...] For both of these reasons, I think we should limit the number of

Re: Limiting size of global package database

2014-12-31 Thread Michael Snoyman
On Wed Dec 31 2014 at 4:25:12 PM Herbert Valerio Riedel hvrie...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Michael, On 2014-12-31 at 15:10:37 +0100, Michael Snoyman wrote: tl;dr: Now that ghc (the library) doesn't depend on Cabal (the library), can we remove Cabal from the global package database installed

Re: Limiting size of global package database

2014-12-31 Thread Mathieu Boespflug
Hi Herbert, On 31 December 2014 at 15:25, Herbert Valerio Riedel hvrie...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Michael, On 2014-12-31 at 15:10:37 +0100, Michael Snoyman wrote: tl;dr: Now that ghc (the library) doesn't depend on Cabal (the library), can we remove Cabal from the global package database