I hadn't been thinking of all the contexts the Haskell installer would be executed, this does seem impractical.
But user-installed executables shouldn't go into /usr/local/bin either. Does the directory really need to be on the path? On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 4:04 AM, Wilson MacGyver <wmacgy...@gmail.com> wrote: > I 2nd that, I think having Haskell installer mess with your > .bash_profile is a bad > idea. > > On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Mark Lentczner <mark.lentcz...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Editing ~/.bash_profile feels "out of scope" to me. Installing Haskell > > shouldn't, I think, edit your shell settings, should it? For example, > > I can't imagine any Linux distro of Haskell deciding to do such a > > thing. > > > > If it *were* in scope, then I'd keep all the built bins tidy and out > > of /usr/bin even for ghc and the like, and put all of these on the > > user's PATH: > > ~/Library/Haskell/bin/ > > /Library/Haskell/bin/ > > /Library/Frameworks/GHC.framework/Versions/Current/usr/bin/ > > > > But that would lead to another problem: When to modify > > ~/.bash_profile? At install time, the installer is running as > > administrator. It could enumerate all accounts and try to figure out > > which are real users vs. utility accounts. It could enumerate /Users, > > ignoring Shared. And none of these would handle the issue of > > non-logged in users with FireVault home dirs, home dirs mounted via > > NFS or the like, or (gasp) users who don't use bash! > > > > Still searching... > > > > > -- > Omnem crede diem tibi diluxisse supremum. >
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