pxsl-tools @1.0.1: configure failure

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Warning: pxsl-tools.cabal: A package using 'cabal-version: >=1.2' must use
section syntax. See the Cabal user guide for details.
Configuring pxsl-tools-1.0.1...
Dependency base -any: using base-4.7.0.1
Dependency containers -any: using containers-0.5.5.1
Dependency mtl >=1.0: using mtl-2.1.3.1
Dependency parsec >=2.0: using parsec-3.1.5
Setup: The following installed packages are broken because other packages they
depend on are missing. These broken packages must be rebuilt before they can
be used.
package mtl-2.1.3.1 is broken due to missing package
base-4.7.0.1-c64d224738ec7af4085e89ca9c12c37b
package parsec-3.1.5 is broken due to missing package
base-4.7.0.1-c64d224738ec7af4085e89ca9c12c37b,
bytestring-0.10.4.0-18fe2f3ce284617c82da1702e16772cf
package text-1.1.0.0 is broken due to missing package
base-4.7.0.1-c64d224738ec7af4085e89ca9c12c37b,
bytestring-0.10.4.0-18fe2f3ce284617c82da1702e16772cf,
deepseq-1.3.0.2-733fe43e121f761739636bd6670bea77

[nerdling (Jeremy Lavergne)]

I'll likley need to defer to @neverpanic here.

It sounds like Haskell's package manager, cabal checks the full dep chain. Any implicit/rdeps can break builds if they're broken. I'm not sure I'd say this is a problem for pxsl-tools itself.