[Nix-dev] Use GHC 7.10.1 as default Haskell compiler in nixpkgs

[member MP2E]

Speaking as someone that has been bitten by the non-deterministic package
IDs many times, I'm fully in favor of switching over to GHC 7.10.1 and
removing the old infrastructure. If there's anything I can do to help the
transition, let me know

On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 4:51 PM, Peter Simons <simons at cryp.to> wrote:

> Hi Ertugrul,
>
>  > The last time I tried to switch, Nix started to build everything from
>  > source, including GHC, even with the options described in the Haskell
>  > NG thread.
>
> what architecture do you use? Is it i686-linux by any chance? I'm asking
> because Hydra isn't building binaries for that platform at the moment.
>
> You should always get binaries of GHC itself, though. Those are part of
> the standard "nixos-unstable" channel.
>
> Best regards,
> Peter
>
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