[Haskell-beginners] retreive a list of installed packages

Brent Yorgey byorgey at seas.upenn.edu
Sun Dec 22 20:35:24 UTC 2013


On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 02:38:53PM +0000, harry wrote:
> Is there any simple way for a program to retrieve a list of installed
> packages (such as ghc-pkg list returns), or would it be easier to execute
> phc-pkg as an external process and catch the output?

Try the hackage-db package:

  http://hackage.haskell.org/package/hackage%2Ddb

-Brent


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