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"path": "/t/first-release-candidate-for-stack-3-11-1/14179#post_2",
"publishedAt": "2026-05-31T09:49:27.000Z",
"site": "https://discourse.haskell.org",
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"textContent": "To illustrate the use of the new `--reach <package>` option:\n\nThe Stack project itself depends on 231 other Haskell packages, 70 of them directly. Say that I wanted to understand better how it depended on package `witherable`. I can command `dot` within the Stack project, pipe (`|`) the output into the separate dot tool and generate an SVG file:\n\n`stack dot --external --reach witherable | dot -Tsvg -o example.svg`\n\nOn my Windows system, `start` is set up to use Inkscape to open an SVG file:\n\n\n > start example.svg\n\n\nThe relationships I am interested in are then revealed:",
"title": "First release candidate for Stack 3.11.1"
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