#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 | Resolution: Keywords: | Difficulty: unknown Ghcversion: | Platform: ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ Comment (by nr): I think the config file should be created at install time. It's a reasonable expectation and will prevent you from having to change documentation. If you can find no other way, it's better to run 'cabal update' at install time than it is to leave things as they are now. But it would be still better to have a cabal command just to create the config file and to run that. After all, code to 'create config if it does not already exist' has got to be right handy someplace... -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/542#comment:2 Hackage http://haskell.org/cabal/ Hackage: Cabal and related projects