Re: [Haskell-cafe] Why does cabal unnecessarily reinstall dependencies?

2010-11-23 Thread Erik Hesselink
It might be that it both your own package and the dependencies cabal tries to reinstall all depend on some package P. If the dependencies are installed depending on P version 1, but to satisfy all dependencies for your own package, cabal needs them to depend on P version 2, cabal will reinstall the

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Why does cabal unnecessarily reinstall dependencies?

2010-11-23 Thread Nicolas Maupu
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 22:26, Martijn van Steenbergen wrote: > Hello cafe, Hello > > When I want to locally install my own package through "cabal install" it > tries to reinstall dependencies convertible-1.0.9.1, HDBC-2.2.6.1 and > HDBC-mysql-0.6.3 even though they are already installed (and wor

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Why does cabal unnecessarily reinstall dependencies?

2010-11-22 Thread Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
On 23 November 2010 08:26, Martijn van Steenbergen wrote: > Hello cafe, > > When I want to locally install my own package through "cabal install" it > tries to reinstall dependencies convertible-1.0.9.1, HDBC-2.2.6.1 and > HDBC-mysql-0.6.3 even though they are already installed (and work fine). Wh

[Haskell-cafe] Why does cabal unnecessarily reinstall dependencies?

2010-11-22 Thread Martijn van Steenbergen
Hello cafe, When I want to locally install my own package through "cabal install" it tries to reinstall dependencies convertible-1.0.9.1, HDBC-2.2.6.1 and HDBC-mysql-0.6.3 even though they are already installed (and work fine). Why does it do this? cabal-install version 0.8.2 using version 1