Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Cabal's default install location

Duncan Coutts wrote:

Thanks for all that. Some good suggestions.

I've linked the results in the ticket on this issue so someone can re-read all the suggestions in detail when they come to update the behaviour (hopefully for 0.6.4 or something).

http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/289#comment:17

Could you add this[1] link too, because it highlights the problem with user installs[1]. i.e. you either have to have root access to install the dependencies, or install non-haskell dependencies in your home directory. Edward 1. http://haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2009-April/060441.html