#384: suggest use of --user if configure fails with missing deps that are in the user db ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Reporter: duncan | Owner: Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Cabal library | Version: HEAD Severity: normal | Keywords: Difficulty: normal | Ghcversion: 6.8.3 Platform: | ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- The fact that `runghc Setup configure` and `cabal configure` are different confuses people. The former does a `--global` install by default while the latter does `--user` installs by default. This crops up when people install something via `cabal-install` and then configure another package using `runghc Setup` and are confused when the dependency they just installed is apparently missing. One solution would be that when configure finds that there are missing dependencies, it could check them in the per-user package database and if they are found to suggest that the user might have intended to do a per- user install. Mentioning the constraint that global packages can only depend on other global packages probably would not go amiss either. -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/384 Hackage http://haskell.org/cabal/ Hackage: Cabal and related projects