# Pre-Pre-HFTP: Decoupling base and GHC

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**Created:** [November 25, 2021, 8:00am UTC](https://discourse.haskell.org/t/pre-pre-hftp-decoupling-base-and-ghc/3727 "2021-11-25T08:00:07Z")\
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Yes that is exactly what I was thinking for the first step, “Cleave base in two”.

`List` and `Maybe` are perfectly innocent definitions, but as they are wired-in they will end up on the GHC-specific side. That’s not ideal, but it’s perfectly fine for the first stab at this.

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