Hello, > thanks I wanted to mention that the "unknown symbol" error is very > likely not related to the cab tool as the same error appears, when > using the cabal - tool. I guess we can ignore it even in the context > of my main question, sorry for being to verbose. What I found more > interesting is, that cab doesn't try to re-install an installed > package - already in the database too, as ghc-pkg output pretends - > which is expected behaviour. The cabal system frontend obviously does > trying to reinstall the package though. This seems like different > model of reality...
This is not true. cab install re-installs some packages if necessary, unfortunately. That's why I recommend to use "cab install -n". --Kazu _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
