Re: Proposal: deepseq should not depend on containers

On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 07:03:57PM +0100, Johan Tibell wrote:

The deepseq package depends on the containers package. This forces all packages that want to depend on deepseq in order to provide a NFData instance for exported types, to also depend on containers.

Proposal, have containers depend on deepseq, not the other way around, and define the NFData instances for the types in the containers package, in the containers package.

That would mean adding deepseq as a GHC boot package. According to http://bifunctor.homelinux.net/~roel/hackage/packages/archive/revdeps-list.h... containers has 860 direct users while deepseq has 52.