The longer term solution is to allow installing multiple instances of
#220: detect inconsistent package dependencies ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Reporter: duncan | Owner: Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Cabal library | Version: 1.2.3.0 Severity: normal | Resolution: Keywords: | Difficulty: hard (< 1 day) Ghcversion: 6.8.2 | Platform: ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Comment (by ross@soi.city.ac.uk): Replying to [ticket:220 duncan]: the same versions of a package built against different versions of its dependencies. This is the functional Nix approach however it would probably also require support from ghc. Couldn't this lead to an exponential explosion in the number of package instances? -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/220#comment:1 Hackage http://haskell.org/cabal/ Hackage: Cabal and related projects