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Dragno
Dragno

Reputation: 3124

Is there a way to automatically remove a Cabal package with its depedencies?

I would like to know if there is some tool,script or any other way to uninstall packages and their dependencies that were installed using the Cabal tool?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 257

Answers (1)

Ganesh Sittampalam
Ganesh Sittampalam

Reputation: 29110

There's no built-in way of doing this and I've never heard of a tool or script that can do it.

The best approach is to use a sandbox. For example in a fresh directory:

cabal sandbox init
cabal install <whatever>
...

Then just blow away the directory when you're done with it.

You can also explicitly specify the sandbox directory with --sandbox=... - otherwise it goes in .cabal-sandbox inside the current directory.

Upvotes: 4

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