On Saturday 16 Apr 2005 8:57 pm, Isaac Jones wrote:
One final thought: why is there no uninstall?
I've requested it too, and the simple answer was because no one's implemented it yet.
Uninstall is also a little funny because in order to use it you have to have the cabal-ized source package around somewhere, and cabal doesn't install it. That said, there's no really deep reason not to have it.
What I meant was cabal taking things out of places it puts them. If I've downloaded a source somewhere I wouldn't expect cabal to remove that. For example if /my/chosen/dir/bin now contains the executables put there by cabal: ./Setup configure --prefix=/my/chosen/dir ./Setup build ./Setup install --user then I would expect ./Setup uninstall to remove those executables from /my/chosen/dir/bin.
I filed wishlist bugs for both of these against the debian package haskell-cabal, which is where i'm keeping but reports.
Thanks.