On Jun 3, 2010, at 20:27 , Jens Petersen wrote:
I often find myself hitting Ctrl-C at "cabal install HACKAGE" to run
"yum install ghc-DEPENDENCY-devel"
and before returning to run "cabal install" again.

It would be nice to automate this in some way - cabal-install plugins, anyone??


Supposedly a future Cabal extension will be to, instead of installing, write out a package for a vendor packaging system (yum, apt, yast, what have you). Consider contributing to that effort.

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