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Can't print dependencies of bytestring #1
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Unfortunately I think this is a fundamental limitation.
That's why you're getting the One way to work around this might be by adding your own bytestring package to the Haskell package set and overwriting the built-in nulled-out bytestring package. I'm not sure how easy this would be to do. |
Thanks for the quick response! I think I'll try to build a custom GHC using the modified |
@sjakobi Oh, I don't mean you have to use a modified GHC. I just mean that in an overlay to self: super: {
bytestring = haskell.lib.callCabal2nix "bytestring" ../some/path/to/modified/bytestring-src/ {};
} I'm not 100% sure this will be easy to get to work, although hopefully it will. Of course, using a modified GHC will almost certainly work, it will just take a very long time to do the initial compile. |
I'd like to use this project to investigate the potential fallout of a change in
bytestring
(see haskell/bytestring#140).As a first step I tried to get a list of its reverse dependencies, but failed:
The result is the same with e.g.
text
.Am I hitting a fundamental limitation of this project or could this be fixed?
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