On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 1:00 PM, Henk-Jan van Tuyl <hjgtuyl at chello.nl> wrote:
>> Using the commands:
> cabal update
> cabal list | fgrep " * " | wc
> I counted 927 entries.
>
Unfortunately that's not a reliable means of determining cabal
packages. (Baffling, I know.) I think it actually lists things you
have installed from other sources, too. For instance:
$ cabal list | grep cairo
* cairo
Homepage: http://haskell.org/gtk2hs/archives/2006/01/26/cairo-eye-candy/
$ cabal install cairo
cabal: There is no package named cairo
Last time this came up there was mention of adding an option to only
list things which cabal has control over. I don't know if anything has
come of that idea.
Cheers,
D
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Dougal Stanton
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