As a Debian user, I always do a home directory install. I also am root.
On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 1:33 PM, harry <volderm...@hotmail.com> wrote: > I'm unable to install the binary distribution of 7.8.1 on RHEL because it > requires libgmp.so.10 and GLIBC_2.15, which are much greater than the > version available on Red Hat. (I'm on a shared system without root access, > so upgrading libc is out of the question, even if it could be done.) If > this > is what most users would like, I certainly don't want to be the Luddite > trying to hold them back. > > Who actually are "most users" for the bindist? Debian & derivatives have > the > latest GHC in the package repository, so it's presumably Red Hat & Co, and > people without root. If the bindist is only relevant to rootless users on a > modern Debian derived distro, is it targeting the right audience? > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://haskell.1045720.n5.nabble.com/target-audience-for-the-binary-distribution-tp5743588.html > Sent from the Haskell - Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list archive at > Nabble.com. > _______________________________________________ > Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list > Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users >
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