On 3 maj 2007, at 17.53, Duncan Coutts wrote:
This is not a Cabal bug. By design, Cabal does not just pick up any
packages from the environment like --make does. One of the main points
of Cabal is to be able to explicitly track dependencies of a
package, so
we do require that they all be listed explicitly. Cabal then tells ghc
to *only* look in those listed packages and ignore all others even if
they happen to be installed.
Now certainly it would be nicer if ghc+cabal could be more helpful and
tell you all the missing packages that you need to list in the
"build-depends" field in the .cabal file, rather than currently where
you have to do it one by one.
In fact I was thinking of something more than this. When I said
"file a bug" I didn't intend to describe it as a bug but as a
feature, which are also managed by the bug tracker. Also, I agree
that dependencies should be listed explicitly; it might be very
useful to let Cabal generate you a template with some sane
suggestions, though.
/ Thomas
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