p-alik

# unregister broken GHC packages. Run this a few times to resolve dependency rot in installed packages.
# ghc-pkg-clean -f cabal/dev/packages*.conf also works.
function ghc-pkg-clean() {
  for p in `ghc-pkg check $* 2>&1  | grep problems | awk '{print $6}' | sed -e 's/:$//'`
  do
    echo unregistering $p; ghc-pkg $* unregister $p
  done
}

# remove all installed GHC/cabal packages, leaving ~/.cabal binaries and docs in place.