On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 12:37 PM, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Is there a way of making Cabal install dependencies using the system >> package manager, then? >> >> For example, I might ask Cabal to install package A. Package A >> depends on B and C. A package for B can be downloaded through APT, >> but there are no APT-installable candidates for A and C. Are you >> saying that Cabal can download and install B using APT, then download >> A and C from Hackage? > > If you mean cabal-install, then no, there's no integration on either > side. >
It's worth noting, though, that cabal-install doesn't track installed packages itself, GHC does. So if you install a library from APT and it writes to the package.conf correctly, cabal-install will be able to find it. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
