Not what you asked for, but.. Although the documentation looks somewhat cryptic, and I have not use it at all, a nix + cabal option seems to be in the works. Search google for "nix haskell". I am guessing that their Hydra continuous build system which is built on top of nix also could do wonders for hackage. Alexander On 9 December 2011 12:20, Kevin Jardine wrote:

I understand that this may have been addressed before on this list in some form, so I'll be brief:

Had problem with deprecated package, was told my only option was to wipe my Haskell install and start over. Is this true and if so, doesn't this mean that Cabal (or the package management system that it is a part of) is broken?

Details here:

https://plus.google.com/u/0/111705054912446689620/posts/V1186HGWEap

Kevin

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On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 06:20, Kevin Jardine wrote:

Had problem with deprecated package, was told my only option was to wipe my Haskell install and start over. Is this true and if so, doesn't this mean that Cabal (or the package management system that it is a part of) is broken?

http://ivanmiljenovic.wordpress.com/2010/03/15/repeat-after-me-cabal-is-not-... (in short: yes, it's broken, and probably not fixable. cabal is a friendlyish wrapper for ghc-pkg, which is not a package manager in the sense many people want it to be, and it never will be.) Something *really* needs to be done about its absurd willingness to blindly override bootlibs and thereby break things, though. -- brandon s allbery allbery.b@gmail.com wandering unix systems administrator (available) (412) 475-9364 vm/sms