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authorJohn Ericson <git@JohnEricson.me>2020-04-12 16:33:53 -0400
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2020-04-12 16:33:53 -0400
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Merge pull request #85085 from Ericson2314/document-haskell-env-changes
nixos/doc: Document breaking change to Haskell dev shells
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@@ -935,6 +935,15 @@ services.dnsmasq.servers = [ "127.0.0.1#43" ];
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
+ Haskell <varname>env</varname> and <varname>shellFor</varname> dev shell environments now organized dependencies the same way as regular builds.
+ In particular, rather than receiving all the different lists of dependencies master together as one big lists, and then partitioning into Haskell and non-Hakell dependencies, they work from the original many different dependency parameters and don't need to algorithmically partition anything.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ This means that if you incorrectly categorize a dependency, e.g. non-Haskell library dependency as a <varname>buildDepends</varname> or run-time Haskell dependency as a <varname>setupDepends</varname>, whereas things would have worked before they may not work now.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
The <package>gcc-snapshot</package>-package has been removed. It's marked as broken for &gt;2 years and used to point
to a fairly old snapshot from the <package>gcc7</package>-branch.
</para>