#15726: Don't include Haskeline (and others) in the global package DB -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: judah | Owner: (none) Type: feature request | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Build System | Version: 8.6.1 (make) | Resolution: | Keywords: Operating System: Unknown/Multiple | Architecture: | Unknown/Multiple Type of failure: None/Unknown | Test Case: Blocked By: | Blocking: Related Tickets: | Differential Rev(s): Wiki Page: | -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Comment (by hvr): Replying to [comment:4 bgamari]:
Are you sure the original issue why we started properly registering GHCi's dependencies around GHC 7.8 has been dealt with? Otherwise this will just throw us back to square one with the bugs/issues we had pre-7.8.
Not at all; can you refresh our memories on what those issues were?
comment:ticket:8919:17 gives a summary of the issues involved which eventually lead to 4caadb7cbee5c176abb99df25c4cc1657ae57f40; and you can find some potential approaches to addressing the issue mentioned in the surrounding discussion. Note however, that `lib:Cabal` has also slowly been acquiring more dependencies, such as `lib:mtl`, `lib:text` or `lib:parsec` (and I've recently realised that the option of not bundling `lib:Cabal` with GHC is not feasible anymore for reasons related to catch-22s in the bootstrapping process). -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/15726#comment:5 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler