| I started off from the assumption that "shipments" are necessary and | obviously beneficial. However after thinking about it for a while and | thinking through some of the implications (especially on dependency | resolution) I'm not not so convinced that we need shipments as such. I have not been following this thread much, but my original understanding was precisely that A Cabal package *is* the unit of distribution Indeed, that's what it is for I'm entirely unclear why new need some other larger unit. Yes, a Cabal package may depend on other Cabal package, but those dependencies are explicit in the package descr file, and Cabal-get can follow the links. Any larger unit (shipments) will also have dependencies that need to be followed, in just the same way, so I don't understand what has been gained. I'm probably missing something, but perhaps someone can write down the reasoning on Duncan's Wiki page? http://haskell.org/hawiki/Cabal_2fMultiPackageDistributables Simon