#601: cabal setup doesn't respect --prefix ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Reporter: zooko | Owner: Type: defect | Status: closed Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Cabal library | Version: 1.6.0.1 Severity: normal | Resolution: wontfix Keywords: | Difficulty: unknown Ghcversion: | Platform: ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Comment (by zooko): I don't expect you to fix this, but I just want to reiterate that I think this is a design flaw. The use of a package database makes the hackage package system incompatible with any principle-of-least-authority- respecting installation process, such as GNU stow or Nix. I know it is hard to conceive of an alternative, but there are alternatives, such as using the filesystem as your database, such as GNU stow does. I wonder how Nix handles hackage issue... -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/601#comment:5 Hackage http://haskell.org/cabal/ Hackage: Cabal and related projects