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.


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