[Haskell-cafe] cabal --user question

[Frederik Eaton]

Hi,

How do I install a package in the user package.conf with cabal? It is
not clear to me how to do this, looking at the output of 'configure
--help'. There is an option "--user" to get dependencies from the user
cabal file but this still, somewhat counterintuitively, tries to
install the package in the global location (why would one want such
behavior?). Specifying '--with-hc-pkg="ghc-pkg --user"' doesn't seem
to work either, when I do this then 'install' and 'unregister'
complete without error but apparently have no effect.

Thanks in advance,

Frederik