Ricardo Wurmus <rek...@elephly.net> skribis: > Ricardo Wurmus <rek...@elephly.net> writes: > >> Some Haskell packages have a “-bootstrap” variant to cut dependency >> cycles. Unfortunately, these bootstrap variants remain in the reference >> graph alongside their non-bootstrap counterparts. > > On a related note, Haskell packages retain needless references to *all* > other Haskell packages at build time. That’s because we *copy* their > .conf files at build time to create a package cache, and these .conf > files thus propagate even to unrelated packages.
Weren’t these files eventually superseded by the ‘ghc-package-cache-file’ profile hook? Or are these two different things? Ludo’.
