Niklas Broberg
I want the executables in /my/chosen/dir/bin but the library to be in /usr/local/lib rather than /my/chosen/dir/lib.
With "ordinary" configure scripts, you can finetune installation using flags like --libdir, --bindir, --includedir etc. This doesn't seem to work with Cabal just yet, but I don't think there are any reasons why it shouldn't be implementable. Feature request? =)
I don't see any problem with this, except that there will be a lot of configure flags if we keep this up. That's typical for configure, though. Also, of course, it adds more complexity to the source.
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. I filed wishlist bugs for both of these against the debian package haskell-cabal, which is where i'm keeping but reports. peace, isaac