#578: Allow installation of distro packages
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Reporter: bos | Owner:
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: _|_
Component: cabal-install tool | Version:
Severity: normal | Resolution:
Keywords: | Difficulty: project(> week)
Ghcversion: | Platform:
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Comment (by duncan):
The other aspect of the problem of course is the permissions issue. Users
are typically running cabal under their normal user account. Should we
attempt to elevate privileges and if so when and how?
We already support a --root-cmd=sudo flag which we use with global
installs performed as the user so that we build as the user and do the
install step as root.
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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/578#comment:5>
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