#16309: Flag to instruct GHC not to use an environment file -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: goldfire | Owner: (none) Type: feature | Status: new request | Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Compiler | Version: 8.6.3 Keywords: | Operating System: Unknown/Multiple Architecture: | Type of failure: None/Unknown Unknown/Multiple | Test Case: | Blocked By: Blocking: | Related Tickets: Differential Rev(s): | Wiki Page: -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- As the [https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/latest/docs/html/users_guide/packages.htm... #package-environments user manual] document, GHC looks for environment files in the current directory to tell it what packages to look for. There seems to be no way to disable this behavior (short of deleting or renaming the environment file). This causes trouble for me, as I expect `ghci` to mean the same thing no matter where I say it. Can we add a flag (perhaps `-no-package-env`) that tells GHC not to look for an environment file? Note that specifying a dummy package environment file doesn't work because we can't suppress the implicit `-hide-all- packages` that is triggered whenever using a package environment. -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/16309 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler