Is it accurate to say that for a single user system, one could just alias cabal to use default mode of sandbox, and transparently ti would just work the same, but avoid cabal library conflicts?

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Personally I'd like for it to be the default, but I don't if everyone agrees. If we make it the default, people who wanted a "global" install would have to use `cabal install --user`.

On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 2:30 PM, Gregory Guthrie <guthrie@mum.edu> wrote:

   "I *strongly* suggest everyone start transitioning from cabal-dev to cabal sandboxes."

Is there any reason that this is not just the default install mode for Cabal?

Anything that prevents the current cabal-swamp of broken dependencies is a great help. I have tried to use Haskell in some classes, but it is hard when students (and I) cannot install packages, and the only answer is the Microsoft-like; "delete everything and start over; reinstall". It certainly reduces their confidence that Haskell is a feasible working environment.