I just wondered if you could make a library that
doesn't depend on base.

I suppose this is a giant boon for all these 
alternate prelude libraries,
you could make your own alternate base.

You can just completly bypass the CLC and
make your own favorite haskell:

+ Don't like monads? Don't define them!
+ Don't like String? Don't define it!

In return, you lose the entire library ecosystem...
but hey, you're in control.