Nixpkgs GHC deprecation policy

This is a cross-post of the announcement of the GHC deprecation policy we intend to implement in nixpkgs.

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if the main reason to keep old ghc versions is to support cabal and stack based development on nixos then perhaps a good alternative is to add nixos support to ghcup. I think rustup just works on nixos, so it should be possible.

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That’s a very nice RFC.

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