Why does Nix have Haskell packages that are incompatible with GHC for a given version?

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  1. ghc_nix_problem

    I created an example repository https://github.com/cideM/ghc_nix_problem

  2. InfluxDB

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  3. haskell.nix

    Alternative Haskell Infrastructure for Nixpkgs

    I'm not a great haskeller but I found haskell.nix better for Haskell projects, like the commenter on Discourse suggested. I've had a few issued regarding package versions with nixpkgs that haskell.nix solved.

  4. nixpkgs

    Nix Packages collection & NixOS

    For 8.10, there is configuration-ghc-8.10.x.nix.

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