"Martin DeMello" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Thanks! Did you have any conflicts between manual and apt-got stuff?
Not yet, but I haven't really hammered my system with packages yet.
> Is there any equivalent to gentoo's "package.provided" (which
> basically says 'I have installed this manually; please don't try to
> update it for me')?
I'm not familar with Gentoo (anymore - I ran it briefly, but got tired
of all the compiling), but I think the answer is 'no'. The native
packages go in /usr/{bin,lib,..}, while manual installs --
i.e. cabal -- puts stuff under /usr/local (or in your home dir).
Native packages can of course only depend on and be built against
other native packages. For "manually" installed packages, I believe
cabal will use the newest version wherever, as long as it's compatible
with the dependency specification in the .cabal file.
-k
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