[Haskell-cafe] Can cabal be turned into a package manager?

[Brandon Allbery]

On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 12:51 PM, Andre Cunha <andrecunha.usp at gmail.com>wrote:

> Janek, did you mean something like Rubygems (http://rubygems.org)? It
> manages the download, installation and manipulation of Ruby packages,
> called "gems". A gem can contain executable programs or libraries (just
> like traditional packages, like .rpm). Rubygems also handles dependencies
> between gems, and allows you to update them.
>

But doesn't solve the actual problem; Ruby programmers use RVM (think
virthualenv) religiously to avoid "gem hell", and every Ruby project
effectively has its own Ruby installation as a result.  Indeed, gem
managers mostly expect you to be installing into private RVM sandboxes.

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