On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 4:38 PM, Henk-Jan van Tuyl <hjgt...@chello.nl>wrote:

> On Sat, 15 Dec 2012 16:14:59 +0100, Brandon Allbery <allber...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 9:01 AM, Petr P <petr....@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> So if I put cpphs into build-tools and I don't have it installed, the
>>> build will fail? Is this a desired behavior, or a bug?
>>>
>>
>> Shortcoming of cabal; it only "knows about" libraries because it is really
>>
> A work-around for this would be to add a dummy library to program-only
> packages.
>

But then what do you do about the current case, where the library imports a
potentially dubious license dependency?

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