[Haskell-cafe] Re: Problems with Haskell Platform

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On Jun 3, 2010, at 20:27 , Jens Petersen wrote:
> I often find myself hitting Ctrl-C at "cabal install HACKAGE" to run
> "yum install ghc-DEPENDENCY-devel"
> and before returning to run "cabal install" again.
>
> It would be nice to automate this in some way - cabal-install  
> plugins, anyone??


Supposedly a future Cabal extension will be to, instead of installing,  
write out a package for a vendor packaging system (yum, apt, yast,  
what have you).  Consider contributing to that effort.

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electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university    KF8NH


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