requiring consistent package dependencies can give surprising results
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(Imported from [Trac #511](http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/511), reported by guest on 2009-02-27)
I tried running this command:
sudo cabal install test-framework test-framework-hunit test-framework-quickcheck test-framework-quickcheck2However, Cabal barfed with:
Resolving dependencies...This seems to be because the quickcheck and quickcheck2 providers for test-framework by design depend on disjoint versions of `QuickCheck?`. This should not confuse cabal install, since installing the packages sequentially in any order works fine:
cabal: cannot configure test-framework-quickcheck-0.2.1. It requires
QuickCheck >=1.1 && <2
For the dependency on QuickCheck >=1.1 && <2 there are these packages:
QuickCheck-1.1.0.0 and QuickCheck-1.2.0.0. However none of them are available.
QuickCheck-1.1.0.0 was excluded because QuickCheck-2.1.0.1 was selected
instead
QuickCheck-1.1.0.0 was excluded because test-framework-quickcheck2-0.2.1
requires QuickCheck >=2.1.0.0
QuickCheck-1.2.0.0 was excluded because QuickCheck-2.1.0.1 was selected
instead
QuickCheck-1.2.0.0 was excluded because test-framework-quickcheck2-0.2.1
requires QuickCheck >=2.1.0.0
sudo cabal install test-framework test-framework-hunit test-framework-quickcheck
sudo cabal install test-framework-quickcheck2
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