Oh, I was assuming you already had a version of 'network' installed
that came with the Haskell Platform - the platform comes with:
network-2.3.0.13
HTTP-4000.2.3
So I assumed they were being installed again because of the flag.
Really, the platform comes with everything that cabal-dev depends on,
so it might be easier to solve whatever error message you're getting
without the '--force' flag.
Antoine
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 9:30 PM, Gregory Guthrie
Yes, because a simple "cabal install" failed, and said the only way to do it was to force-installs.
But if this is a dependency, wouldn't it be requires (or not) either way?
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Trying to bootstrap into cabal-dev seems to require some external installations as well;
>>cabal install cabal-dev --force-reinstalls
Maybe I'm missing some context, but is there a reason you're using the "--fore-reinstalls" flag? If you didn't pass that then 'cabal' maybe would not try to re-install the 'network' package and you wouldn't run into this.