Achim Schneider wrote:
Don Stewart <d...@galois.com> wrote:
This means that 'cabal
install' works out of the box on every system, without needing
admin/root privs (esp. important for students).
...and people who were bitten by sanity and thus never, ever touch /usr
manually, only through their distribution's package manager.
This is good advice (/usr/local is fine though). However, the point here
is surely that the de-facto default for all other downloaded programs -
standard makefile setups, automake, autoconf, perl package, python
packages, graphic installers like firefox - is do to what cabal calls a
'global' install by default.
This makes cabal's inversion of default a violation of least surprise,
however easy it may be to justify that user installs are better.
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