fedora 24 was released this tuesday and upgrades ncurses (which contains libtinfo) from version 5 to version 6. Therefore my stack-installed ghc was broken by the upgrade to fedora 24 (cannot find libtinfo.so.5).

This is the same as issue #257 for arch, except that it seems that arch has at least for now a way to parallel install the old version of the library, while i can't find a mechanism in fedora.

I tried wiping the ~/.stack and re-running stack setup, but that doesn't help, fails due to libinfo-5 missing. Also note that fedora ships with ghc 7.8.4 only, making the situation even worse.

I think more and more distributions will ship with ncurses6. Also the arch workaround is temporary and requires "expert" manual intervention. If it's not possible to statically link it, maybe stack needs two binaries, or to do the linking on the client?