Don Stewart
This means that 'cabal install' works out of the box on every system, without needing admin/root privs (esp. important for students).
...and people who were bitten by sanity and thus never, ever touch /usr manually, only through their distribution's package manager. Then there's those that work in an environment with network-mounted home directories, and even if the admins judged you responsible and skillful enough to award you local root rights, you still want your working environment to be available on any machine you log on. In short: If you don't need the package available for _every_ user, or your distribution comes with a pre-packaged version, don't even think to install it globally: it's an abomination to UNIX. Deal with it, OSX users aren't running a graphic shell on steroids, any more, and, yes, even Windoze users stopped running on top of that hacked-up program loader named DOS. -- (c) this sig last receiving data processing entity. Inspect headers for copyright history. All rights reserved. Copying, hiring, renting, performance and/or quoting of this signature prohibited.