On Fri, 27 Feb 2015, Kazu Yamamoto (山本和彦) wrote:
Hi Jack,
I can't provide any guidance on what GHC might do, but I can from what other distributions have done. On both my Debian and Gentoo systems, there is a cabal-install package that is as easy to install as ghc. Perhaps CentOS could provide a similar package. I see that Fedora has a cabal-install package as well. Perhaps that could be added to epel or you could build it yourself for CentOS.
In my CentOS 7:
% yum search cabal No matches found % yum provides cabal No matches found
Anyway, I would like to know reasons why the GHC binary package does not provide the cabal command.
Ah, yes, I have no idea. This may help people get off the ground quicker. Would the Haskell Platform get you what you need? https://www.haskell.org/platform/linux.html You also may be interested in checking out EPEL (Fedora packages built for the Enterprise Linux family), which is where I got my Haskell (an other missing packages) from. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL It is too bad that the Haskell Platform wasn't popular enough to make it into the base OS. Best, Jack