Re: [Haskell-cafe] Global Package Install

I agree - and had a run-around with this same issue recently (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65836038/haskell-timeit-module-systemtim...) The options for simple usage were failing - a JIRA was filed: "ghc and ghci don't read the default package environment file on Windows" https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/issues/19286 -----Original Message----- From: Haskell-Cafe On Behalf Of MigMit Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2021 3:37 PM So do I. But it seems to me like a global trend: more and more tools are designed to make our life easier, and it becomes harder and harder to deal with the mess they create.

On 18 Feb 2021, at 22:15, Richard Eisenberg wrote:

Yes, but it's so, so much easier just to say `ghci`. And then I can pass lots of options to `ghci` directly when I want to. And I don't have to spend time writing and maintaining wrapper scripts.