[Haskell-cafe] When I change the cabal file to say preference: base >= 4

[Daniel Fischer]

On Thursday 30 September 2010 00:56:56, caseyh at istar.ca wrote:
> When I change the cabal file to say
> preference: base >= 4

In the .cabal file of a package, that would belong in the build-depends.

> I still get, "you are using base 3.0 which is deprecated."
> When I change the overall cabal profile, the error message still comes
> up.

Which cabal version? Perhaps it doesn't know preferences yet.

> It seems like some other part of the install process is controlling
> the base version, besides the *.cabal and cabal profile file.
>

Did you verify that none of the build-depends requires base == 3.* ?