As someone who frequently installs Haskell on servers, I'm interested in what you have in mind. My install process basically consists of 3 steps: 1) Install GHC from bindist 2) Delete all the documentation (except licenses), and all the stuff that's only needed for profiling, dynamic linking, and GHCi; 3) Install caball-install I'm not interested in any other pre-installed packages, because cabal-install will download and install what's needed when it needs it. The basic idea of HP - a pre-selected set of libraries to base development on - is only meaningful for developer workstations, not the servers that they deploy their software to. As for making it easier to install a working Haskell system, there's a separate proposal to include cabal-install with the bindist. -- View this message in context: http://haskell.1045720.n5.nabble.com/A-modest-proposal-re-the-Platform-tp574... Sent from the Haskell - Libraries mailing list archive at Nabble.com.