#542: installing cabal-install refers to editing nonexistent file $HOME/.cabal/config ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ Reporter: nr | Owner: Type: defect | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: cabal-install tool | Version: 1.6.0.1 Severity: minor | Keywords: Difficulty: unknown | Ghcversion: Platform: | ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ {{{cabal --help}}} invites me to edit a file that doesn't exist, and I can't easily find documentation for the file: {{{ : nr@homedog 5520 ; cabal --help This program is the command line interface to the Haskell Cabal infrastructure. ... You can edit the cabal configuration file to set defaults: /home/nr/.cabal/config : nr@homedog 5521 ; ls -l /home/nr/.cabal/config ls: cannot access /home/nr/.cabal/config: No such file or directory }}} -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/542 Hackage http://haskell.org/cabal/ Hackage: Cabal and related projects