- deleteOtherWiredInPackages pkgs = filterOut bad pkgs
- where bad p = any (p `matches`) wired_in_pkgids
- && package p `notElem` map fst wired_in_ids
+ -- this is old: we used to assume that if there were
+ -- multiple versions of wired-in packages installed that
+ -- they were mutually exclusive. Now we're assuming that
+ -- you have one "main" version of each wired-in package
+ -- (the latest version), and the others are backward-compat
+ -- wrappers that depend on this one. e.g. base-4.0 is the
+ -- latest, base-3.0 is a compat wrapper depending on base-4.0.
+ {-
+ deleteOtherWiredInPackages pkgs = filterOut bad pkgs
+ where bad p = any (p `matches`) wired_in_pkgids
+ && package p `notElem` map fst wired_in_ids
+ -}