As a side note, I have stopped having cabal issues since I started using hsenv. It sandboxes packages for you. So if you have install problems you just need to delete a local .hsenv directory instead of reinstalling everything. On Jun 12, 2013 11:15 PM, "Richard A. O'Keefe" <o...@cs.otago.ac.nz> wrote:
> My original problem was that I wanted to load a particular set of > packages using 'cabal install'. It didn't work (cabal install issues) > and while the maintainer reacted promptly and helpfully, cabal > kept on trying to install the wrong version. > > Part of the problem was that blasting away ~/.cabal and ~/Library/Haskell > wasn't enough: it's necessary to blast away ~/.ghc as well (which I had > forgotten existed and of course never saw). > > * It would be handy if 'uninstall-hs' had an option, say > * uninstall-hs --user > * so that a user could in one step make it as if they had never > * used the Haskell Platform. > > (Sigh. Changes to the GHC command line interface since 7.0 have > broken one of the packages I used to have installed, and the > maintainer's e-mail address doesn't work any more. And sometimes > it seems as if every time I install anything with cabal something > else breaks.) > > PS. Earlier today cabal gave me some confusing messages which > turned out to mean 'GSL isn't installed'. Non-Haskell dependencies > could be explained a little more clearly. > > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe >
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