#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 bos): Ditto to what nomeata said. {{{cabal}}} doesn't need to offer any platform-specific machinery of substance here. It would be sufficient for it to define an interface to maybe two shell scripts: * one which would query "what is, or could be, installed, with complete dependency information?" * another which would either perform the installation or abort, and actually deal with the details of authorisation and privilege escalation and so on -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/578#comment:7 Hackage http://haskell.org/cabal/ Hackage: Cabal and related projects