Re: [Haskell-cafe] Confusions about the Haskell Platform (for Mac)

Am Donnerstag 08 April 2010 00:09:34 schrieb Ivan Lazar Miljenovic:

Daniel Fischer writes:

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I currently have 6.10.1, 6.10.3 and 6.12.1 installed (openSuSe 11.1), no problem. On my previous computer (SuSE 8.2), I had every release from 6.2.2 to 6.8.2, no problem either.

Using system packages?

Of course not, I'm a source freak (except the 6.10.1, one has to get started somehow).

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Ah, but one shouldn't use a package manager for Haskell packages. Cabal is far superior to all of them 8-)

Except for the fact that you can't uninstall,

Well, I can uninstall manually if I really want to, but disk space isn't that scarce yet.

check for non-Haskell-library dependencies,

True, a distro package manager could do that. However, so far I've found the ease of managing Haskell packages via cabal- install worth much more than taking care of the occasional non-Haskell dependency.

etc. ...

Such as?