[Hackage] #924: symlink-bindir does not play nice with program-suffix

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#924: symlink-bindir does not play nice with program-suffix
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  Reporter:  guest               |        Owner:                               
      Type:  defect              |       Status:  new                          
  Priority:  normal              |    Milestone:  cabal-install-0.16           
 Component:  cabal-install tool  |      Version:  1.14.0                       
  Severity:  normal              |     Keywords:  symlink-bindir program-suffix
Difficulty:  unknown             |   Ghcversion:  7.4.1                        
  Platform:  Linux               |  
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Changes (by kosmikus):

  * milestone:  => cabal-install-0.16


Comment:

 I am actually not sure what was the intention here. Installing the binary
 with the suffix seems the right thing to do. For the symlink, I don't
 know. I think both makes sense in certain situations. In particular,
 creating the symlink without a suffix makes sense in the case that you
 install multiple variants of one program with different suffixes and want
 the symlink to point to whatever is your current default variant.

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