Re: [wxhaskell-users] cabal install wx

[Brian L. <br...@lo...>]

On Saturday, 08.08.09 at 13:41, S. Doaitse Swierstra wrote:
> Did you recently install something using the sudo command? That may have
> changed the permissions/ownership of the pacckage.conf.

I think package.conf's ownership and permissions are as they should be,
root:root 644.

The wx cabal package seems to assume that the user running 'cabal
install' will be able to modify root-owned files in /usr. I don't
understand why any installation would be set up that way these days.

It also seems wrong because it defies ~/.cabal/config, which says to
install stuff under ~/.cabal.

> On 8 aug 2009, at 03:09, Brian Lewis wrote:
>> I appreciate all the hard work that went into WxHaskell, and the
>> effort
>> going into its continued development. But:
>>
>> $ cabal install wx
>> ...
>> Writing new package config file...
>> ghc-pkg: /usr/lib/ghc-6.10.4/./package.conf:
>> you don't have permission to modify this file
>>
>> Is there some explanation for this hostile behavior? Every other
>> cabalized package I've installed in the past year has been satisified
>> to live in ~/.cabal and not mess with other files behind the back of
>> my distro's package management system.