Achim Schneider <bars...@web.de> writes: > Thomas Davie <tom.da...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> There seems to be an assumption amongst the community that a user's >> home directory is the most useful place for cabal to install to by >> default. A few people have challenged that. I wanted to find out >> which one most people do actually prefer, so please go and vote on >> this poll. >> >> http://noordering.wordpress.com/2009/04/21/cabals-default-install-location/ >> >> It's no more than a straw poll, I don't know how protected it is >> against ballot stuffing, but I'm pretty confident that Haskellers >> are trustworthy enough not to play with it that way. >> >> I'll tell you all the result next week. >> > alias cabal='cabal --global'
It's a trouble to distro maintainer, and relatively insecure for regular root user. -- c/* __o/* <\ * (__ */\ < _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe