Re: Cabal suggestions

On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 10:47:34PM -0500, Isaac Jones wrote:

Ross Paterson writes:

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* setup install and register have --user and --system flags, which seem to offer a choice at that point, but one has to have anticipated this choice when supplying the --prefix flag to configure. How about a --user-prefix flag to configure (with a sensible default) to say where user packages are installed?

So the idea is that if they said "./setup configure --user=~/usr/ --system=/usr/local/" then it would install it in the appropriate place when they said "./setup install --user"?

What should happen if they say "./setup install --prefix=/usr/bin" and "./setup install --user"?

In that case the package would be installed relative to the default value of --user-prefix, say the value of System.Directory.getHomeDirectory.