On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 3:42 AM, Daniel Trstenjak <daniel.trstenjak@gmail.com> wrote:
Just to make it clear, a cabal sandbox build does consider the installed
libraries in the user package database, right?

No, the sandbox mechanism coopts the user package database mechanism, so it cannot see anything in the normal user package database --- the sandbox *is* the user package database.

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