[racket] ARGH my packages are broken and I'm stuck

From: Alexis King (lexi.lambda at gmail.com)
Date: Tue Feb 10 22:14:05 EST 2015

What do you get running raco pkg show? (Run raco pkg show -l if you’re using a dev build.)

That should tell you what packages Racket thinks you have installed.

> On Feb 10, 2015, at 18:38, Matthew Flatt <mflatt at cs.utah.edu> wrote:
> 
> At Tue, 10 Feb 2015 18:19:40 -0800, Ryan Davis wrote:
>> 10045 % raco pkg install cover/
>> raco setup: given collection path: "cover" refers to the same directory as 
>> another given collection path, "zenspider/cover"
> 
> I think you have the enclosing directory "zenspider" installed as a
> package. Does `raco pkg remove zenspider` have any effect?
> 
> In v6.1.1.8, you'd get an error from `raco pkg install cover/`
> complaining about the overlap f directories among packages. In v6.1.1,
> that check wasn't yet in place, and the collision is detected later by
> `raco setup` (as run by `raco pkg install`).
> 
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