Hello, The network package contains both socket modules and a URI module. They are in different level. Since new features are actively added to the socket modules, we may want to install a new network package even though Haskell Platform includes it. However, the Network.URI module depends on Parsec which depends on the text package. This sometimes causes dependency hell. I would like to propose to split the network package into: - new network package which contains socket modules only - network-uri package which contains Network.URI only Example implementations are available: https://github.com/kazu-yamamoto/network/tree/no-uri https://github.com/kazu-yamamoto/network-uri Note that they keep necessary commit history. In HP, only "HTTP" and "cgi" depends on "network" and they use "Network.URI". They can be compiled by just adding "network-uri" as dependency. Also, "http-conduit" uses "Network.URI". This can also be compiled by adding "network-uri". For more information, please refer to: https://github.com/haskell/network/issues/76 Discussion period: 2 weeks --Kazu