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+I'm having trouble installing the latest git-annex. It depends on 'base >= 4.5 && base < 5', but ghc 7.0 only ships base 3.0. I've tried upgrading ghc to 7.4 but that breaks a whole bunch of other things; for example, the Crypto module fails to compile, preventing me from installing ghc. Please fix compatibility with ghc 7.0.
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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="http://joey.kitenet.net/"
+ nickname="joey"
+ subject="comment 1"
+ date="2012-03-11T15:50:11Z"
+ content="""
+There is a `ghc7.0` branch in [[git]] that is being maintained to work with that version.
+"""]]