Cabal woe

[amindfv at mailbox.org]

On Tue, Jul 09, 2024 at 01:06:02PM -0400, amindfv--- via ghc-devs wrote:
> [...]I've talked to quite a lot of people who miss the old days of `cabal install`-ing a package (particularly if it requires tweaking flags) [...]

Forgot to mention an additional common workflow issue: having pre-installed packages that come from non-{H,St}ackage sources. Just another source of friction, where typing g-h-c-i-ENTER was by far the easiest way to use the package.

Tom