Hackage and Cabal are nice, but a command line tool for automatically searching Hackage and installing Hackage packages (like the cpan program, or easy_install) would be nice. Unless I haven't done my homework and this tool exists...
This tool exists. It is called 'cabal-install'. To try out one of today's new packages: $ cabal update Downloading package list from server 'http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive' $ cabal install category-extras Downloading 'category-extras-0.52.1'... Configuring category-extras-0.52.1... Preprocessing library category-extras-0.52.1... Building category-extras-0.52.1... /usr/bin/ar: creating dist/build/libHScategory-extras-0.52.1.a Installing: /home/dons/.cabal/lib/category-extras-0.52.1/ghc-6.8.2 Registering category-extras-0.52.1... Done.