[Haskell-cafe] Cabal sandboxes over cabal-dev (Rogan Creswick)

[Bob Ippolito]

symlinks are generally how this gets "solved" in practice.

On Friday, November 1, 2013, Carter Schonwald wrote:

> This.
>
> Actually the Mac brew folks are hitting this issue exactly.  Subtlty being
> you want  to be able to install bin and share assets both to a custom
> location. Unclear how to do that currently.
>
> On Friday, November 1, 2013, Tom Ellis wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Nov 01, 2013 at 06:37:13PM +0000, Tom Ellis wrote:
>> > On Fri, Nov 01, 2013 at 01:31:33PM -0500, Gregory Guthrie wrote:
>> > >    "I could see myself inadvertently cabal-installing utilities (eg:
>> newt, bnfc, etc...) in sandboxes on accident.
>> > >
>> > > What is wrong with this?
>> >
>> > My guess is that Rogan was suggesting they wouldn't appear on the PATH.
>>
>> I wonder if some compromise is possible whereby the binary builds in the
>> sandbox but is installed to some user-wide location on the PATH.
>>
>> Tom
>>
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