I'd argue that one is the fault of Backpack itself: it's inherently
GHC-specific and was intended to be used with tooling (that is, Cabal). It
really needed to be a language feature instead of a tooling hack, IMO.

On Sun, Mar 15, 2026 at 11:19 PM [email protected] <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 16, 2026 at 10:35:45AM +0900, Moritz Angermann via ghc-devs
> wrote:
> > I think this highlights another point where cabal is _way_ too tightly
> > coupled with the haskell compiler.
>
> Another example might be the apparently-tight coupling between Backpack
> and Cabal.
>
> Cheers,
> Tom
>
>
>

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