On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 7:41 PM, Kazu Yamamoto <kazu@iij.ad.jp> wrote:
Anyway, I would like to know reasons why the GHC binary package does
not provide the cabal command.

Too many additional dependencies. Note that https://www.haskell.org/cabal/download.html *does* provide binary packages, specifically to address this.

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