#8244: Removing the Cabal dependency -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: nh2 | Owner: duncan Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Compiler | Version: 7.6.3 Resolution: | Keywords: Operating System: | Architecture: Unknown/Multiple Unknown/Multiple | Difficulty: Unknown Type of failure: | Blocked By: None/Unknown | Related Tickets: Test Case: | Blocking: | Differential Revisions: D172 | -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Changes (by ezyang): * owner: dcoutts => duncan Comment: refold: It's a good question, and thinking about this question more carefully, no, this patchset alone doesn't give us the capability. The problem is that GHC is still tightly coupled to ghc-pkg, but ghc-pkg still has a Cabal dependency and thus if you update Cabal, you also need to upgrade ghc-pkg. So, the only way to make Cabal separately upgradeable is by siphoning ghc-pkg off into a proper package, relaxing the tight coupling and upgrading it when you upgrade Cabal. duncan, can we do this? -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8244#comment:25 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler