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From: Timothy Sample <samplet@ngyro.com>
Subject: Re: How to make sure ghc uses installed packages?
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2019 14:21:47 -0400
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Hi,

John Soo <jsoo1@asu.edu> writes:

> One other problem I can think of is that the current ghc is 8.6 but most
> ghc-* packages are built with 8.4 so most packages are incompatible with
> the default.

I=E2=80=99ve seen a number of bug reports and questions about this.  Maybe =
we
should rename GHC 8.6 to =E2=80=9Cghc-next=E2=80=9D until the build system =
uses it.

Thoughts?


-- Tim