Rebooting into a copy of my OS from before upgrading from Dapper to Edgy, I can reproduce the referenced ghc-bug-631. So I see there is a reason for this. On the other hand, I didn't notice any problems when I used ghci, personally...
-- no ghci in edgy (regression vs dapper) https://launchpad.net/bugs/70302 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
