I’ve read the Simple Guide to Cabal at http://katychuang.com/cabal-guide/
<http://katychuang.com/cabal-guide/>
It says:
create a copy of a package by running the command
cabal install
Some flags can speed up this process
--only-dependencies
-jN to build N packages in parallel
--dry-run to see what cabal plans to do (recommended)
But here’s the thing (piping a word count from —dry-run)
$ cabal install hakyll --dry-run | wc -l
97
cabal install hakyll --only-dependencies --dry-run | wc -l
96
So it takes 20+ minutes to install a package that you just want to check out
for a few minutes, while your CPU melts down in the process? I must be missing
something here…?
Thanks again for your newbie support, greatly appreciated.
P.J.
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