I think at this point I'm going to assume that GHC is doing something actively hostile to working packaging and that as a result Haskell will never have tooling that I'm actually happy to use
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Stack seems to have all the same problems as Cabal, it's just more opinionated and tells you that it's your fault for running into them
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Apparently `cabal new-install` is a thing, and it makes some of this stuff easier. I've not tried it yet though. Haskell packaging has frustrated me thus far, and is one of the reasons why I avoid Haskell :( haskell.org/cabal/users-gu
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Yeah it's joint top reason for me. Unfortunately writing Haskell is a requirement for what I'm currently doing
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Yeah, lots of good stuff from Haskell, just kinda wish they'd get their tooling in order. Movement towards something like `cabal new-install` seems to be encouraging though. Hope they improve the marketing from 'nix-style builds' though - that means nothing to most people.