cabal should access to currently installed packages from the package db. Just thinking out loud ... a digraph of dependencies would have to be built from "build depends" to drive possible "faulting in " ....

On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 3:37 AM, Galchin, Vasili <vigalchin@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello,

It seems to me that the "build depends" attribute/field is only informational, i.e. it doesn't cause "faulting in" dependencies if not present? If true, this seems to be a deficiency in cabal. ??

Kind regards, Vasili

PS It seems to me that for HaskellDB the "build depends" is incomplete in that it should contain "old time" and "TextPrettyPrint.HughesPJ"??