There's also the path taken by Homebrew on OS X... make /usr/local owned by you, since you probably only have one user on the machine anyway. (I suggest avoiding any suid-root executables in /usr/local in this case.) On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 10:02 PM, Haisheng Wu <freizl@gmail.com> wrote:
I think it depends on how u install it. By default it need to write some files to system path. E.g. /usr/local/bin I wonder there is option allow you to specify installation path this you won't necessarily be root.
-Haisheng
On Wednesday, August 5, 2015, 吕文龙 <lvwenlong_lambda@qq.com> wrote:
just want to know why do I have to be a root user to install haskell platform?
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Today's Topics:
1. Re: ANNOUNCE: Haskell Platform 7.10.2-a (Mark Lentczner)
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Message: 1 Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2015 13:51:36 -0700 From: Mark Lentczner <mark.lentczner@gmail.com> To: haskell <haskell-cafe@haskell.org>, haskell-platform@projects.haskell.org, haskell@haskell.org Subject: Re: [Haskell] ANNOUNCE: Haskell Platform 7.10.2-a Message-ID: <CAAOoiFbC5moqKFCaAJ25S44auZBJbLEFwx27y8Vy40p4N29XkQ@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
As promised in the Haskell Platform 7.10.2 announcement, we have now release Haskell Platform 7.10.2-a. The only changes from 7.10.2 are:
text-1.2.1.3 - to work around the issue with text literals in GHC 7.10.2 fgl-5.5.2.1 - this release changes no APIs, but fixes builds with older GHCs
Available, as always, from: https://www.haskell.org/platform/
- Mark