Re: WARNING: package dependencies

On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 13:19 +0100, Malcolm Wallace wrote:

Duncan Coutts writes:

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So what this means is that by having *any* package registered on the system that is exposed by default and depends on the old util package from hslibs, then *any* other program or library that you try to compile that has a GetOpt module (and there are lots of those) will not work.

So is the problem really "automatic exposure" rather than the overlaps themselves?

That's what I thought too, but it turns out to be rather more complicated than that. You can see the thread about this "exposed package exposes dependent packages" starting here: http://www.haskell.org//pipermail/glasgow-haskell-bugs/2005-April/thread.htm... Duncan