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Remove ability to use ghc-binary

There have been a couple of cases recently where people have been using the ghc-binary package. We should either:

  • ship binary instead. Then people can legitimately use it, and as a bonus, as GHC moves to using binary the Binary instances for GHC's types will become available
  • Add something to GHC to allow us to really hide packages, so people can't use it

We'll have to make some sort of decision about hoopl, too.

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Version 7.0.2
Type Bug
TypeOfFailure OtherFailure
Priority high
Resolution Unresolved
Component Compiler
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