On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 22:13, Albert Y. C. Lai <trebla@vex.net> wrote:
On 11-08-28 04:53 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote:
That'd be expected; you shouldn't simply obliterate package.conf.d, you
need to keep ghc's boot libraries (which include itself as a library).
 If the boot libraries are somehow hosed, you need to reinstall the
compiler to get them back.

Different package.conf.d

Except that, as you discovered later, the user was obviously talking about having obliterated the system one.  :(

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