Quoting Chris Dornan
Hi Jim,
Thanks for such a quick response.
Previously I've been able to install and use ghc and HP in ~/ without problems. Is there any reason why this couldn't be done with your justhub package?
As I've never tried this brute surgery on such a magnus opus before I'm not sure this is at all feasible?
I wouldn't recommend trying to install the justhub package in user-space.
Starting from the GHC bindists and the sources for everything else (platform and hub wrapper) you can relocate everything of course. In theory I believe it would also be possible to make all the RPMs relocatable, but because of all of the moving parts it's not so easy in practice.
Sure. Too scary for me. However sandboxing everything ghc in user space seems to me a good idea at the moment.
It is on my list of things to do -- obviously the more requests I get the higher it will go on the priority list, and the number of requests has now just doubled, to two (but I will bet there are more -- I take it seriously).
BTW my ISP doesn't allow the use of yum. I can build a Snap server by manually installing the needed deps from HP but it silently crashes every couple of hours and I failed to build it with library-profiling. I'd like to get Snap working on this ISP as it's for a voluntary environmental science group and previous Snap installations on my home machine have seemingly worked perfectly. Cheers
Chris