[Hackage] #542: installing cabal-install refers to editing nonexistent file $HOME/.cabal/config

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#542: installing cabal-install refers to editing nonexistent file
$HOME/.cabal/config
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  Reporter:  nr                  |        Owner:                    
      Type:  defect              |       Status:  new               
  Priority:  low                 |    Milestone:  cabal-install-0.16
 Component:  cabal-install tool  |      Version:  1.6.0.1           
  Severity:  minor               |     Keywords:                    
Difficulty:  unknown             |   Ghcversion:                    
  Platform:                      |  
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Changes (by kosmikus):

  * priority:  normal => low
  * milestone:  => cabal-install-0.16


Comment:

 While it's obvious to me that it can't be done at install time, I fail to
 see why we need to wait until an "interesting" command is executed. Why
 can't the first invocation of {{{cabal}}} create the config file? Does
 config file creation depend on {{{update}}} having been run before?

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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/542#comment:4>
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