[Haskell-cafe] cabal install ghc-mod installs 3 years old version

[Malcolm Wallace]

Doesn't Cabal tend to install library packages under the .cabal folder?  So blowing it away gets rid of the problematic ones.  (And everything else.)

On 25 Feb 2013, at 16:56, Brent Yorgey wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 02:33:55PM +0000, Niklas Hambüchen wrote:
>> You are right, my "ghc-7.4.2" was broken in ghc-pkg list; I fixed the
>> problem by killing my .cabal folder (as so often).
> 
> Surely you mean by killing your .ghc folder?  I do not see what effect
> killing your .cabal folder could possibly have on broken packages.