[Haskell] Package removal

[Ivan Miljenovic]

On 14 May 2010 12:44, Yang Zhang <yanghatespam at gmail.com> wrote:
> How do ghc users on Linux (esp. Debian/Ubuntu) systems remove
> packages?

I uninstall the system package I used to install that package.
However, this doesn't work for cabal-install...

> AFAICT there's only cabal unregister,

Do you mean "ghc-pkg unregister"?

> and no way to remove files but manually, which is tricky when these packages are
> interspersed with other files in /usr/local. I found some old mailing
> list threads mentioning that this is an open issue, but as I'm
> currently facing this, I'm wondering if there's been any news on this
> front.

Nope.

Maybe using something like stow with this if you're installing it into
/usr/local anyway...

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