Subject: bug#41451: Haskell packages retain references to bootstrap variants

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 25 May 2020 23:10:16 +0200

Ricardo Wurmus <[email-masked]> skribis:

> Ricardo Wurmus <[email-masked]> 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Weren’t these files eventually superseded by the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’.