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

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On Apr 29, 2009, at 04:29 , Ketil Malde wrote:
> Victor Nazarov <asviraspossible at gmail.com> writes:
>> Ubuntu/Debian policy seems to be installation into /var/lib/cabal .
>
> Since when?  I have a ton of stuff installed via apt-get, and I don't

Context suggests he means global installation via Cabal, not apt-get.

>> cabal. Drawback is that you should add /var/lib/cabal/bin into your
>> PATH.
>
> Some systems used /opt in more or less this way.


And still do (Solaris, Mac OS X).

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