#578: Allow installation of distro packages ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ Reporter: bos | Owner: Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: _|_ Component: cabal-install tool | Version: Severity: normal | Resolution: Keywords: | Difficulty: project(> week) Ghcversion: | Platform: ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ Comment (by duncan): The other aspect of the problem of course is the permissions issue. Users are typically running cabal under their normal user account. Should we attempt to elevate privileges and if so when and how? We already support a --root-cmd=sudo flag which we use with global installs performed as the user so that we build as the user and do the install step as root. -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/578#comment:5 Hackage http://haskell.org/cabal/ Hackage: Cabal and related projects