Thanks for all that. Some good suggestions. I've linked the results in the ticket on this issue so someone can re-read all the suggestions in detail when they come to update the behaviour (hopefully for 0.6.4 or something).
http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/289#comment:17 Duncan On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 09:48 +0200, Thomas Davie wrote: > The results in the poll seem to have stabilised now, so I'll tell you > what happened... > > For user installs: 103 > For global installs: 52 > Others: 9 > > Interesting Ideas: > ------------------------ > • Claus made the suggestion that there be no default, instead that > cabal asks you which you prefer the first time you run, or directs you > to the configuration file. > • Many users made the suggestion that cabal should install globally > when running as root, and for a user when running as a user, possibly > also displaying a prominent message about what's going on. > > Conclusions: > ------------------ > Most people do indeed want user installs, but a very much not > insignificant population want global installs. Perhaps one of these > other suggestions is the way forward? > > Bob > > p.s. I personally very much like Claus' idea. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe