Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Problems with Haskell Platform

On Jun 3, 2010, at 20:27 , Jens Petersen wrote:

I often find myself hitting Ctrl-C at "cabal install HACKAGE" to run "yum install ghc-DEPENDENCY-devel" and before returning to run "cabal install" again.

It would be nice to automate this in some way - cabal-install plugins, anyone??

Supposedly a future Cabal extension will be to, instead of installing, write out a package for a vendor packaging system (yum, apt, yast, what have you). Consider contributing to that effort. -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH