implicit common stanzas (a.k.a. common blocks)
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It would be nice to be able to avoid writing the same imports everywhere - this becomes relevant as backpack encourages many internal libraries with similar cabal properties.
The most general way I can imagine is common import blocks that would look something like
import: my-common
library lib-a
...
library lib-b
...
test-suite test-a
...
where each piece within the indented scope implicitly imports `my-common`.
another possibility with even less boilerplate at the cost of being less general is to have toplevel implicit imports like
library-common
build-depends: base
...
so that _all_ libraries import it. There'd also be similar constructs for executable, test-suite, benchmark, foreign-library, etc.
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