[Xmonad] Darcs version on Debian etch?

[Stefan O'Rear]

On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 10:26:17AM +0200, Kai Grossjohann wrote:
> dons at cse.unsw.edu.au (Donald Bruce Stewart) writes:
> 
> > Might be best to just build [X11-1.2.2] with cabal, manually?
> 
> It's difficult to install:
> 
> $ runhaskell Setup.hs configure --prefix=$HOME
> [... elided ...]
> $ runhaskell Setup.hs build
> [... elided ...]
> $ runhaskell Setup.hs install
> Installing: /home/kgrossjo/lib/X11-1.2.2/ghc-6.6 & /home/kgrossjo/bin X11-1.2.2...
> Registering X11-1.2.2...
> Reading package info from ".installed-pkg-config" ... done.
> Unable to rename "/usr/lib/ghc-6.6/package.conf" to "/usr/lib/ghc-6.6/package.conf.old"
> Saving old package config file... ghc-pkg.bin: /usr/lib/ghc-6.6/package.conf: renameFile: permission denied (Permission denied)
> 
> I don't like to modify system files (owned by dpkg) by self-installed
> software.
> 
> I guess I might just install my own GHC in $HOME.  But that sounds like
> quite a bit of work...

Some system files are intended to be modified by user software;
/usr/lib/ghc-6.6.1/package.conf is one of them.

Stefan