On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Giovanni Tirloni <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:gtirloni@sysdroid.com">gtirloni@sysdroid.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
I meant install new packages through cabal under a different username. The cabal repo should be localized unless you specify --global<div class="gmail_quote"><div><br></div><div>Please see Rogan&#39;s suggestions.</div><br>
</div></blockquote><div><br>Thanks for your help! <br>In case I upgrade to the latest Haskell Platform, what will happen to packages already installed  in my ~/.cabal folder? Some of these are quite old and most probably will be incompatible with GHC 7<br>
Does upgrade process remove old  and create anew ~/.cabal folder?<br><br><br></div></div>