4 Aug
2009
4 Aug
'09
4:22 p.m.
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Magnus Therning
AFAIU the plan is to separate GHC and its "platform packages", so in the future it might not be that easy to get to the point where you _can_ run 'cabal install'.
Absolutely not. The point of HP is to make the path from bare OS to complete Haskell installation including cabal-install consist of a single step: 1. Install Haskell Platform
This is a good point, but to some extent this brings us back to a discussion that's specific to systems with broken or non-existing package managers. Wouldn't it be better to deal with _that_ outside of HP?
AIUI, on systems with working package managers, HP will be a metapackage which depends on the appropriate "real" packages. --Max