Thu Jan 10 11:38:30 PST 2008 Duncan Coutts <duncan@haskell.org> * Make --user --global change the default prefix Previously --user and --global didn't mean what it looks like they mean, instead of doing a per-user or a global installation they just meant to register in the per-user or global package databases (and to allow dependencies to be satisfied from the per-user or global db) With this patch --user / --global means to do a per-user or global install so in addition to the package db differences it also sets the default installation prefix. This prefix can of course still be overridden using the --prefix= flag. The global prefix is as before, the default per-user prefix is $HOME/.cabal on Unix and on Windows it's something like: C:/Documents And Settings/$user/Application Data/cabal (using getAppUserDataDirectory "cabal"). This is the per-user prefix that cabal-install currently uses. We can change it if people think it's not good. M ./Distribution/Simple/Configure.hs -2 +6 M ./Distribution/Simple/InstallDirs.hs -3 +7 M ./Distribution/Simple/Setup.hs -9 +11