On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Magnus Therning<mag...@therning.org> wrote: > AFAIU the plan is to separate GHC and its "platform packages", so in > the future it might not be that easy to get to the point where you > _can_ run 'cabal install'.
Absolutely not. The point of HP is to make the path from bare OS to complete Haskell installation including cabal-install consist of a single step: 1. Install Haskell Platform > This is a good point, but to some extent this brings us back to a > discussion that's specific to systems with broken or non-existing > package managers. Wouldn't it be better to deal with _that_ outside > of HP? AIUI, on systems with working package managers, HP will be a metapackage which depends on the appropriate "real" packages. --Max _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
