On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 7:06 AM, Herbert Valerio Riedel <hvr@gnu.org> wrote:

The reason I wouldn't be happy is that the effects of a "broken" package
(especially the more popular it becomes) can't be contained easily. The

I wonder if Hackage can be extended to support an out-of-band "broken" flag that can be applied to such packages, and cabal-install then refuse to use those packages (possibly with an option to override).

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