The Prelude of GHC-7.10/base-4.8 introduces several name clashes mostly due to the AMP and FTP: (<*) clashes with Accelerate, (<*>) clashes with NumericPrelude, (and (<>) would clash with HMatrix if added to Prelude), 'join', 'pure', 'traverse', 'fold' clash with custom defined functions. "import Prelude hiding (pure)" is not yet supported by GHC-7.4 (as shipped with Ubuntu 12.04) and in newer GHC versions it generates an annoying warning. The only remaining option is to explicitly import identifiers from Prelude. What about maintaining the pre-AMP+FTP-Prelude in a package on Hackage? Then we could maintain compatibility with a range of GHC versions by disabling import of Prelude and importing preamplified (so to speak) Prelude. The base-compat package seems to support the other way round, that is, providing new 'base' functions to old compilers.