Re: target audience for the binary distribution

its important to note that this is still a release candidate! Your feedback means we can try to support you better with the final "OFFICIAL" 7.8.1 release! :) seriously, thanks for taking the time to try out the RC, please holler with any other issues you hit On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 1:43 PM, davean wrote:

As a Debian user, I always do a home directory install. I also am root.

On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 1:33 PM, harry wrote:

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I'm unable to install the binary distribution of 7.8.1 on RHEL because it requires libgmp.so.10 and GLIBC_2.15, which are much greater than the version available on Red Hat. (I'm on a shared system without root access, so upgrading libc is out of the question, even if it could be done.) If this is what most users would like, I certainly don't want to be the Luddite trying to hold them back.

Who actually are "most users" for the bindist? Debian & derivatives have the latest GHC in the package repository, so it's presumably Red Hat & Co, and people without root. If the bindist is only relevant to rootless users on a modern Debian derived distro, is it targeting the right audience?

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