On 9 November 2010 10:40, John Lato
On the other hand, on those systems people would get all packages (libraries and programs) required by the Haskell platform, plus some additional ones. Wouldn't hurt too much, IMHO (allthough it feels a little bit wrong if the platform would contain programs that can't be built with only the platform).
I think this was exactly the situation rationale 8.5 means to avoid. I do think it would be technically possible to make this work, but only by greatly increasing the maintenance cost for HP (I underestimated this cost originally). It's probably not a good trade-off.
If cabal supported something like run-time-specified repos it would be much simpler.
What sort of thing are you thinking of here? Duncan