Safe Haskell

[David Terei]

On 3 August 2011 03:08, Simon Marlow <marlowsd at gmail.com> wrote:
> Perhaps all packages should be trusted by default?  (Perhaps with some Cabal
> configuration option to reverse the behaviour).  After all, trusting a
> package is a no-op unless the package defines some Safe or Trustworthy
> modules.  If we don't do this, then everyone has to explicitly type a bunch
> of 'ghc-pkg trust' commands to avoid compilation failure with Cabal packages
> that use Safe or 'import safe'.

This seems a good change to me. What config option to reverse are you
imagining though? i.e something in a .cabal file? Or a flag for
cabal-install so i could type 'cabal install -no-trust regex-compat'?

Cheers,
David