Re: [Haskell-cafe] Library Process (was Building "production stable" software in Haskell)

On 9/18/07, Sven Panne <sven.panne@aedion.de> wrote:

Although this statement might be a bit heretical on this list, I'll have to repeat myself again that Cabal, cabal-install, cabal-whatever will *never* be the right tool for the end user to install Haskell packages on platforms with their own packaging systems like RPM (the same holds for other systems, I just use RPM as an example here).

Does RPM, etc., deal with the fact that Haskell library installations are specific to a particular platform? If I install GHC and some library, and later install Hugs or a later GHC, how easy is it to make sure the library is available to the new installations? -- Dave Menendez <dave@zednenem.com> <http://www.eyrie.org/~zednenem/>