On 6 Apr 2015 21:00, "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> Federico Beffa <beffa@ieee.org> skribis:
>
> > On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 10:24 AM, Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> wrote:
> >> Is the package database cache used by anything other than GHC?  If the
> >> user doesn't have GHC installed, what would consult the GHC package
> >> database cache?
> >
> > Maybe a GHC not in Guix? Not, sure if it would work.
>
> Or it could be that GHC and the libs are installed in different profiles
> (though I admit it may not be that convenient.)
>
> Either way is fine with me, so please push whatever seems most
> appropriate to you.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Ludo’.
>

Hello all,

I just stumbled upon https://github.com/acowley/cabbage which builds nix packages from cabal files.

Maybe their approach can help you decide how to deal with the cache?

Alex