On 06/23/2017 01:15 AM, R0b0t1 wrote: > > I tried to reference that in my post. I tried to install the packages > that constitute the Haskell platform but cabal related utilities were > still firing off on their own. >
The dev-haskell/cabal libraries are used in the build system of most haskell packages, but that portion is akin to the usual ./configure && make && make install and doesn't access the network. It only builds the source code that has already been downloaded by portage. If you're worried about this stuff (and have network namespace support built-in to your kernel), you can set FEATURES="network-sandbox" in your make.conf to prevent ebuilds from accessing the network. Then if any package tries to do something fishy, it will fail.
