Packages and modules

[Malcolm Wallace]

Simon Marlow <simonmarhaskell at gmail.com> wrote:

> > this is a finer granularity of dependency than Cabal is currently
> > good at expressing.
> 
> By all means have package names scattered through the source code, but
> the dependencies still need to be specified in a single place for each
> project.  The main reason is so that tools can grab the dependencies
> of  a package without too much fuss: tools that turn Haskell packages
> into  OS packages, for example.

Indeed.  No problem with that.  Any individual module might have a small
and specific set of package dependencies.  The project as a whole will
have the union of all of those.

Regards,
    Malcolm