Re: [Haskell-cafe] Really impossible to reinstall `base' using cabal?

On Tuesday 25 October 2011, 22:32:23, Captain Freako wrote:

dbanas@dbanas-eeepc:~$ cabal install base

and got this:

Resolving dependencies... cabal: internal error: impossible

Is it really impossible to use cabal to reinstall `base'?

Fortunately, yes. Reinstalling base is impossible (at least with GHC, might be possible with other compilers), so it's good that cabal doesn't even try.