[Haskell-cafe] cabal configure && cabal build && cabal install

[kudah]

On Tue, 27 Nov 2012 02:20:35 -0500 "Albert Y. C. Lai" <trebla at vex.net>
wrote:

> When "cabal build" succeeds, it always says:
> 
> (older) "registering <name>-<version>"
> (newer) "In-place registering <name>-<version>"
> 
> That's what it says. But use ghc-pkg and other tests to verify that
> no registration whatsoever has happened.

It doesn't register in user package-db, it registers in it's own
dist/package.conf.inplace. If it didn't you wouldn't be able to build
an executable and a library in one package such that executable depends
on the library.