Re: [Haskell-beginners] Why is cabal trying to install a particular dependency?

Ben Gamari <ben <at> smart-cactus.org> writes:

Passing -v3 to cabal will cause it to emit all manner of useful (and less than useful) information. It's particularly handy when trying to identify which package is holding back a dependency.

Unfortunately it can be a bit tricky to quickly parse but grep can help here.

Not ideal, but a definite improvement on what I was doing before!