Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Cabal's default install location

On Apr 29, 2009, at 04:29 , Ketil Malde wrote:

Victor Nazarov writes:

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Ubuntu/Debian policy seems to be installation into /var/lib/cabal .

Since when? I have a ton of stuff installed via apt-get, and I don't

Context suggests he means global installation via Cabal, not apt-get.

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cabal. Drawback is that you should add /var/lib/cabal/bin into your PATH.

Some systems used /opt in more or less this way.

And still do (Solaris, Mac OS X). -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH