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Upgrading replaced ghc-with-packages with ghc #23237
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What channel are you using? |
I'm using |
I cannot re-produce this. I'm using
If this has happened on your machine, then it's almost certainly a consequence of some peculiar override you have configured, i.e. Nixpkgs proper does not do this. |
This probably happened when we switched |
Yeah, you are right. This might happen when the user's GHC derivation is defined in terms of |
Also why I discourage use of imperative package management, since package version upgrade paths are known to be fragile. |
What we could do is call the GHC derivation |
I was a little surprised tonight to see that doing a
nix-channel --update
andnix-env --upgrade
replaced my ghc 8.0.1 "with-packages" environment with the vanilla ghc 8.0.2.Not a big problem, and I don't have time to investigate ATM, but it doesn't seem like the "right" behavior.
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