[Haskell-cafe] Re: Cabal's default install location

[Duncan Coutts]

Thanks for all that. Some good suggestions.

I've linked the results in the ticket on this issue so someone can
re-read all the suggestions in detail when they come to update the
behaviour (hopefully for 0.6.4 or something).

http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/289#comment:17

Duncan

On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 09:48 +0200, Thomas Davie wrote:
> The results in the poll seem to have stabilised now, so I'll tell you  
> what happened...
> 
> For user installs: 103
> For global installs: 52
> Others: 9
> 
> Interesting Ideas:
> ------------------------
>   • Claus made the suggestion that there be no default, instead that  
> cabal asks you which you prefer the first time you run, or directs you  
> to the configuration file.
>   • Many users made the suggestion that cabal should install globally  
> when running as root, and for a user when running as a user, possibly  
> also displaying a prominent message about what's going on.
> 
> Conclusions:
> ------------------
> Most people do indeed want user installs, but a very much not  
> insignificant population want global installs.  Perhaps one of these  
> other suggestions is the way forward?
> 
> Bob
> 
> p.s. I personally very much like Claus' idea.