Please add an automated uninstall option for Cabal packages. It's a pain to remove them manually, and the user expectation based on other package managers (Gem, Aptitude, MacPorts, Homebrew, Yum, Emerge) is that "cabal uninstall"/"cabal remove" does the intuitive thing: remove packages and their dependencies. Cheers, Andrew Pennebaker www.yellosoft.us
Seconded. This would have been very useful to me many times.
I tried forwarding this to cabal-devel@haskell.org (Cabal development
discussion), but it's a members-only list. Can someone in the in-crowd
pass along the suggestion?
Thanks,
Tom
On 7/9/11, Andrew Pennebaker
Please add an automated uninstall option for Cabal packages. It's a pain to remove them manually, and the user expectation based on other package managers (Gem, Aptitude, MacPorts, Homebrew, Yum, Emerge) is that "cabal uninstall"/"cabal remove" does the intuitive thing: remove packages and their dependencies.
Cheers,
Andrew Pennebaker www.yellosoft.us
On 10 July 2011 09:12, Tom Murphy
Seconded. This would have been very useful to me many times.
I tried forwarding this to cabal-devel@haskell.org (Cabal development discussion), but it's a members-only list. Can someone in the in-crowd pass along the suggestion?
They know about this suggestion and it's been something on the cards for a while I believe... but there's quite a while to go before it's feasible (e.g. actually recording which packages are installed). Note also that it's not quite correct to refer to cabal-install as a package manager: http://ivanmiljenovic.wordpress.com/2010/03/15/repeat-after-me-cabal-is-not-... (this being one reason why). -- Ivan Lazar Miljenovic Ivan.Miljenovic@gmail.com IvanMiljenovic.wordpress.com
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