On 2015-01-22 at 12:40:05 +0100, Boespflug, Mathieu wrote: [...]
> It sounds to me like Alexander's patch, plus the > solution alluded by Joachim above for "invisible" packages that don't > clash with ones registered in the ghc-pkg db, would allow us to avoid > having any of the following packages leaking into all sandboxes for > all users of GHC 7.10 and following: > > * haskeline > * transformers > * xhtml > * terminfo > > Perhaps others. That would be a big win. Btw, there's an alternative hack that could be used. Since the remaining use of haskeline/terminfo/transformers would then be mostly in GHCi (if haven't missed anything), which is luckily not a library, we don't actually need those packages to be turned into DSOs. We could do something similiar to what `haddock` inside the GHC tree does w/ e.g. its attoparsec dependency: just embed those 4 packages into the ghci executable as if they weren't separate packages. Cheers, hvr _______________________________________________ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs
