On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 13:13 +0000, Dougal Stanton wrote: > On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 1:00 PM, Henk-Jan van Tuyl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Using the commands: > > cabal update > > cabal list | fgrep " * " | wc > > I counted 927 entries. > > > > Unfortunately that's not a reliable means of determining cabal > packages. (Baffling, I know.) I think it actually lists things you > have installed from other sources, too. For instance: > > > $ cabal list | grep cairo > * cairo > Homepage: http://haskell.org/gtk2hs/archives/2006/01/26/cairo-eye-candy/ > $ cabal install cairo > cabal: There is no package named cairo
Good point. I'd forgotten that. That'd explain why the hackage stats do not agree with me. > Last time this came up there was mention of adding an option to only > list things which cabal has control over. I don't know if anything has > come of that idea. I expect it'd be easy for some new cabal hacker. I await the patch :-) Duncan _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
