change location of user's package directory

[Brandon Allbery]

On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 5:35 AM, harry <voldermort at hotmail.com> wrote:

> $ ghc-pkg check --package-db=~/cabal
> ghc-pkg: ~/cabal: openFile: does not exist (No such file or directory)
> $ ls ~/cabal
> package.cache
>

Yet another reason to avoid ~... it's (a) only expanded by the shell, and
(b) not reliably expanded even by the shell if it's not the very start of a
word (as here where it is after =). Use $HOME instead.

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