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| -rw-r--r-- | nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1509.xml | 7 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1509.xml b/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1509.xml index b814426dbe8ab..a2f38d99b25f1 100644 --- a/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1509.xml +++ b/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1509.xml @@ -135,10 +135,9 @@ fileSystems."/shiny" = { <listitem> <para> - Haskell packages can no longer be found by name, i.e. the commands - <literal>nix-env -qa cabal-install</literal> and <literal>nix-env -i - ghc</literal> will fail, even though we <emphasis>do</emphasis> ship - both <literal>cabal-install</literal> and <literal>ghc</literal>. + Haskell packages can no longer be found by name, except for + <literal>ghc</literal>, <literal>cabal-install</literal>, and + <literal>stack</literal>, even though we do package the whole Hackage. The reason for this inconvenience is the sheer size of the Haskell package set: name-based lookups such as these would become much slower than they are today if we'd add the entire Hackage database |