#380: Ability to blacklist packages that are on hackage ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ Reporter: guest | Owner: Type: defect | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: cabal-install tool | Version: 1.2.3.0 Severity: normal | Keywords: wishlist blacklist Difficulty: normal | Ghcversion: 6.8.3 Platform: | ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ Sometimes there are packages on hackage that I don't want to install, perhaps ever. Maybe there is a buggy release I'm trying to avoid, or something of that nature. So, my proposal is a user defined blacklist. I think the version specification could work just like that of a .cabal file. I also think cabal should tell you when it skips a dependency due to blacklisting. -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/380 Hackage http://haskell.org/cabal/ Hackage: Cabal and related projects