Sven Panne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote,
> It seems that the choice of the installation path depends more on
> religious thoughts than technical necessities. The only thing I was
> trying to say is that Joe User rarely needs 5 different versions of
> GHC at the same time, so I prefer paths without version numbers for
> my RPMs. Of course it makes sense for advanced GHC hackers to have
> different versions lying around, but those people normally build GHC
> from source anyway. And with the configure stuff relocating GHC is a
> piece of cake, e.g. with
>
> ./configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib/ghc
>
> binaries go into /usr/bin, the whole rest into /usr/lib/ghc. So what's
> the problem? :-)
Easy - I don't want to build an rpm which doesn't contain a
version number in the path (for public use) only to compile
ghc once more for myself with a version number in the path.
So, better have everybody have the version number and share
the binaries :-)
Manuel
