[Haskell-cafe] Cabal uninstall

[Tom Murphy]

Seconded. This would have been very useful to me many times.

I tried forwarding this to cabal-devel at haskell.org (Cabal development
discussion), but it's a members-only list. Can someone in the in-crowd
pass along the suggestion?

Thanks,
Tom


On 7/9/11, Andrew Pennebaker <andrew.pennebaker at gmail.com> wrote:
> Please add an automated uninstall option for Cabal packages. It's a pain to
> remove them manually, and the user expectation based on other package
> managers (Gem, Aptitude, MacPorts, Homebrew, Yum, Emerge) is that "cabal
> uninstall"/"cabal remove" does the intuitive thing: remove packages and
> their dependencies.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Andrew Pennebaker
> www.yellosoft.us
>