#2051: -hide-package doesn't allow hiding uninstalled package
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Reporter: MagnusTherning | Owner:
Type: feature request | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone:
Component: Compiler | Version: 6.8.2
Severity: trivial | Resolution:
Keywords: | Testcase:
Architecture: x86_64 (amd64) | Os: Linux
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Comment (by MagnusTherning):
Replying to [comment:1 ajd]:
> I wrote a patch to "fix" this but I'm not sure it ought to be the
correct behavior. According to the comments around the function in
question, -ignore-package already has this behavior because it's supposed
to be used as a just-in-case thing, they way you are trying to use -hide-
package. Anyway, I'm attaching the patch and I'll leave it up to the
powers that be to decide what to do about it.
Well, I find that I have to hide packages regularly since it allows me to
have a module installed while I'm hacking on the next version of it.
Without it my unit/quickcheck tests link to the installed version one by
default.
One option would be to keep the current behaviour as default, but allow
overriding it e.g. by using '--force' (similar to how 'rm' has '-f').
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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/2051#comment:2>
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