On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Carter Schonwald
Hello all, I can't seem to find it documented anywhere as to the default directories that cabal puts its information in (its certainly not in ~/.cabal ), as I'm finding that even when I try to do a "reinstall" of the haskell platform, cabal thinks that all the libraries i removed are still there. how can i fix this? thanks -Carter
~/.cabal doesn't store regular Haskell stuff; if you try one of the few uncabalized autotools-based Haskell packages, you'd see your other Cabal-based libs & progs picking it up. Cabal installs stuff and registers it with GHC, which maintains the master database of what's installed; eg. 'ghc-pkg list'. This is usually kept in ~/.ghc: find ~/.ghc/ : .ghc/ .ghc/ghci_history .ghc/i386-linux-6.10.4 .ghc/i386-linux-6.10.4/package.conf -- gwern