With a freshly built ghc head (on windows, using cygwin bash), using the cabal.exe binary $ /cygdrive/d/archive/haskell/cabal/cabal.exe --version cabal-install version 0.6.0 using version 1.6.0.1 of the Cabal library I thought I'd make another attempt at bootstrapping cabal-install, but I get odd dependency resolutions, eg: $ /cygdrive/d/archive/haskell/cabal/cabal.exe install cabal-install --dry-run Resolving dependencies... In order, the following would be installed (use -v for more details): array-0.2.0.0 HTTP-3001.1.5 containers-0.2.0.0 Cabal-1.6.0.1 zlib-0.5.0.0 cabal-install-0.6.0 Note that both array and containers are already installed: $ ghc-pkg list c:/ghc/ghc-6.11.20081202\package.conf: Cabal-1.5.5, HUnit-1.2.0.3, QuickCheck-1.2.0.0, Win32-2.2.0.0, array-0.2.0.0, base-3.0.3.0, base-4.0.0.0, bytestring-0.9.1.4, containers-0.2.0.0, directory-1.0.0.2, ffi-1.0, filepath-1.1.0.1, (ghc-6.11.20081202), ghc-paths-0.1.0.5, ghc-prim-0.1.0.0, haddock-2.3.0, haskell-src-1.0.1.3, haskell98-1.0.1.0, hpc-0.5.0.2, html-1.0.1.2, integer-0.1.0.0, mtl-1.1.0.2, network-2.2.0.1, old-locale-1.0.0.1, old-time-1.0.0.1, packedstring-0.1.0.1, parallel-1.1.0.0, parsec-2.1.0.1, pretty-1.0.1.0, process-1.0.1.1, random-1.0.0.1, regex-base-0.72.0.2, regex-compat-0.71.0.1, regex-posix-0.72.0.3, rts-1.0, stm-2.1.1.2, syb-0.1.0.0, template-haskell-2.3.0.0, time-1.1.2.2, xhtml-3000.2.0.1 Should I be worried?-) Claus