#688: no indication that configuration file location is configurable ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ Reporter: guest | Owner: Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: cabal-install tool | Version: 1.8.0.2 Severity: minor | Keywords: Difficulty: easy (<4 hours) | Ghcversion: 6.10.4 Platform: Linux | ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ Comment(by duncan): I'm not quite sure why you say it is non-standard. It's the standard unix place to put per-user application files. Where would you consider to be a standard location? You can use: {{{ cabal --config-file=... [command] [flags] }}} So it should work to use a shell alias, something like {{{ alias cabal="cabal --config-file=..." }}} So really the bug here is not that it's hard coded (since it's not) but that these global flags are not easily discoverable. We don't list them all in the global --help so as not to clutter things, but then we need a way to let people know that there are extra global options and provide a way to get the help for them via some extended --help thing. So let us know about: * what you think the standard location should be * if that shell alias (or whatever equivalent you choose to use) works ok and we should open another ticket on providing extended help for the global flags. -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/688#comment:1 Hackage http://haskell.org/cabal/ Hackage: Cabal and related projects