Re: Transitive hs-ports updates

2020-05-25 Thread Greg Steuck
On Mon, May 25, 2020 at 2:52 PM Matthias Kilian wrote: > > I know why GHC behaves this way, but this property turns minor updates > > into major events. > > Should we do an experiment and try to get rid of MODGHC_PACKAGE_KEY? I expect we'd trade an obvious and quick failure for a delayed and

Re: Transitive hs-ports updates

2020-05-25 Thread Matthias Kilian
Hi, On Sun, May 24, 2020 at 04:07:50PM -0700, Greg Steuck wrote: > I only now realized how obnoxious version keying property of cabal is > when applied to ports. A full-tree ghc upgrade is OK, I expect to > touch everything. But updating a single library close to the bottom of > dependency graph

Transitive hs-ports updates

2020-05-24 Thread Greg Steuck
Hi Matthias, I only now realized how obnoxious version keying property of cabal is when applied to ports. A full-tree ghc upgrade is OK, I expect to touch everything. But updating a single library close to the bottom of dependency graph is not fun all. Say I updated devel/hs-dlist. It's a