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Fix typo in playground post #5

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Expand Up @@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ I just don't know how, so if you do, please reach out.
### The build environment: making Haskell packages available

Having just the [boot packages](https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/wikis/commentary/libraries/version-history) available would make for a rather bare playground (no `System.Random`, etc.), so we clearly need to provide something more.
The current policy for additional packages is "if you can convince me that a package is useful that a package is useful and it doesn't unnecessarily bloat the dependency tree, I'll add it together with its transitive dependencies".
The current policy for additional packages is "if you can convince me that a package is useful and it doesn't unnecessarily bloat the dependency tree, I'll add it together with its transitive dependencies".
This has happened multiple times already (e.g. [1](https://github.com/haskell/play-haskell/issues/45), [2](https://github.com/haskell/play-haskell/issues/47), [3](https://github.com/haskell/play-haskell/issues/50)).
This policy is admittedly completely subjective, but it's unclear if there is a real alternative.
The only "principled" option seems to be making all of [Stackage](https://www.stackage.org/) available, but that is both unwieldy (there's _too many_ packages in there so it takes a huge amount of disk space) and not always possible (the playground aims to support new GHCs immediately after release, and Stackage naturally lags behind).
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