Re: GHC with cabal-install

2015-02-26 Thread 山本和彦
Hi Jack, I can't provide any guidance on what GHC might do, but I can from what other distributions have done. On both my Debian and Gentoo systems, there is a cabal-install package that is as easy to install as ghc. Perhaps CentOS could provide a similar package. I see that Fedora has a

Re: GHC with cabal-install

2015-02-26 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 7:41 PM, Kazu Yamamoto k...@iij.ad.jp wrote: Anyway, I would like to know reasons why the GHC binary package does not provide the cabal command. Too many additional dependencies. Note that https://www.haskell.org/cabal/download.html *does* provide binary packages,

Re: GHC with cabal-install

2015-02-26 Thread 山本和彦
Hi Brandon, Too many additional dependencies. OK. Note that https://www.haskell.org/cabal/download.html *does* provide binary packages, specifically to address this. Oh. I did not know this page. Excellent. Thanks! --Kazu ___ ghc-devs mailing