2010/12/28 Johan Tibell
Ticket:
http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/4868
Copy of proposal:
The  deepseq package depends on the  containers package. This forces all packages that want to depend on deepseq in order to provide a NFData instance for exported types, to also depend on containers.
Proposal, have containers depend on deepseq, not the other way around, and define the NFData instances for the types in the containers package, in the containers package.
Discussion deadline: 2 weeks.
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It seems like a huge number of packages depend on containers, and almost everyone seems to have it installed anyway, so I don't see what we gain by removing the dependency on containers. Alexander