Hi,
On 15 April 2014 03:35, Travis Cardwell
In a recent /r/haskell post [1], user mightybyte commented:
This. The Haskell Platform installs a bunch of packages for you in --global. My experience is that this inevitably leads to problems if you're doing significant Haskell development. The best thing to do is to minimize the number of packages installed as --global. The way to do that is to install GHC directly and avoid using the Haskell Platform or Haskell distributions provided by your OS.
Having the foundational libraries like text in the global package DB is not such a bad idea because otherwise you end up reinstalling them into each new sandbox. The post you quote doesn't provide information about specific problems with this setup. I'd be interested to hear about them.