Hello Joachim > Maybe… but do you mean to cabal-install? or libghc-cabal-dev? or ghc > (which ships Cabal)? or haskell-devscripts? Maybe the best solution to avoid installing pkg-config is to teach debian-cabal when we debianize a package, to add the pkg-config dependency only if pkgconfig-dependes is in the .cabal file. cheers Fred