Keean Schupke
But of course writing a generic Haskell installer (for Hackage/Cabal) may well turn out to be simpler - and would be more useful to more people, and has the advantage that only one set of installation instructions are required as well.
I didn't object against having such a tool, -- it's needed for distributions without package managers (think LFS), Windows, ... -- I just mentioned that it might (and hopefully will) be possible to install _any_ of the cabal packages (even if they are not already packaged by the distro) as distro-native packages without having to resort to a generic tool. Aside from that, having a generic version that can (as Simon said) output package skeletons would help such a cabal emerge tool (and any other such tool, for that matter) too. Gabriel.