[Haskell-cafe] A cabal odyssey

[Andrew Coppin]

Ben Millwood wrote:
> It sounds to me like your life would be a lot easier if you knew about
> cabal-install's root-cmd configuration parameter! Open your
> .cabal/config file and uncomment and set:
>
> root-cmd: sudo
>
> Now cabal-install will take up root permissions when and only when necessary :)
> I only found this out after asking #haskell about similar problems.
> Perhaps it should be more prominent somehow.
>   

Thank you for that. I was hoping such a thing had been implemented 
somewhere...