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Subject: Cabal imports and conditionals
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2015 18:07:14 +0200
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An interesting discussion of the NixOS people as to whether to evaluate
Cabal conditionals at =E2=80=9Cimport time=E2=80=9D (what Fede=E2=80=99s Ca=
bal importer does),
or whether to keep them so the final recipes so we can take advantage of
them to define package variants:

  http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.nixos/18345

Ludo=E2=80=99.