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Merge pull request #210984 from maralorn/haskell-docs-fix

haskell/docs: Fix a link
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@@ -159,13 +159,12 @@ on Hackage and tries to pick for every (transitive) dependency of your build
exactly one version. Those versions need to satisfy all the version constraints
given in the `.cabal` file of your package and all its dependencies.

The Haskell builder in nixpkgs, (described in more detail in
[#haskell-mkderivation]), does no such thing. It will simply take as input
packages with names off the desired dependencies and just check whether they
fulfill the version bounds and (by default, see `jailbreak`) fail if they
don’t.
The [Haskell builder in nixpkgs](#haskell-mkderivation) does no such thing.
It will simply take as input packages with names off the desired dependencies
and just check whether they fulfill the version bounds and (by default, see
`jailbreak`) fail if they don’t.

The package resolution is done by the `haskellPackages.callPackage` function,
The package resolution is done by the `haskellPackages.callPackage` function
which will, e.g., use `haskellPackages.aeson` for a package input of name
`aeson`.
While this is the default behavior, it is possible to override the dependencies