On Sep 12, 2:51 am, wren ng thornton <w...@freegeek.org> wrote: > On 9/11/10 3:43 PM, Daniel Fischer wrote: > > >> - is there a "specification" of which are the "core" packages? > > > "core" as in *do not update*? > > Basically, what comes with GHC shouldn't be updated. > > Though I heard updating Cabal was okay.
> I tried updating Cabal once (recently) and it broke things in the same > way. FWIW. My Cabal was upgraded and is alive, but the bugs we see don't make the upgrade reliable. Most variations of the trap I hit would have killed cabal, period. Some could have killed GHC. And even for my case, resurrecting my old friend Cabal after his attempted suicide was not for the faint-heart, and took much more time than letting him die and replacing him with some other friend, i.e. reinstalling from scratch the user packages - I just never allow my programmed friends to die, if I can avoid that. I value their liveness :-D. -- Paolo Giarrusso - Ph.D. Student http://www.informatik.uni-marburg.de/~pgiarrusso/ _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe