Greetings. I have a bit of a problem with Cabal's need to build-depend on posix. I'm building cabal with itself, and I think this is what's happening: If it depends on posix, on a non-posix system, the user will get an error because the posix package doesn't exist. If it doesn't depend on posix on a posix-based system, then ghc won't get the -package posix flag, and so cabal will fail to link. On the other hand, "depends" in the cabal sense is meant to be a static value; not dependent on what kind of system you are using... it's kinda funny to say "if you're on a posix system, then cabal depends on posix." Cabal doesn't _really_ depend on POSIX... it only does in its Compat libraries, and we could get rid of all the POSIX code. I think another ugly workaround is to have cabal depend on "util" or something, since that package depends on posix on a posix system, and presumably it doesn't depend on posix on a non-posix system. Any ideas? Should we just delete the Posix code in cabal? peace, isaac