On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 08:21, Ramon Diaz-Uriarte <rdiaz02@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, 9 Nov 2011 08:23:20 +0000,Anthony Campbell <ac@acampbell.org.uk> wrote:
> On 08 Nov 2011, Ramon Diaz-Uriarte wrote:
> > Jonas, thanks. You were right. It was straightforward (Debian includes
> > cabal-install) and I did not notice any change (which is good!) after
> > xmonad --recompile; xmonad --restart.

> Doesn't work here (Debian Sid). It complains that there is no installed
> version of base. (See my earlier post about this on the list,)

Anthony, I am also using Debian (a mix of unstable and testing, with a few
experiemental packages). I checked the output of your ghc-pkg list and it
seems similar to mine. Both do include base-4.3.1.0.

I'll have to dig back into this thread to find the mentioned post, but I will note that when cabal complains about not being able to satisfy "base -any" it *usually* means that there are conflicting boot library versions around that break the "base" package.  (That is, it really means that there is no combination of package versions that results in "base" being usable.)

(ghc 7.2.x changed things in a way that can cause that error, by making the haskell98 package incompatible with modules compiled *without* haskell98; this breaks some of XMonadContrib's dependencies, in particular off the top of my head X11-xft uses haskell98 but XMC doesn't.)

BTW, it would help if you posted the entire error you got.

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