Julian Ospald

@whitequark > ... and it really should use ~/.local/bin; `~/.local/bin` is not specified by the XDG spec.

looks like there is a 1.0 release? tag? https://help.github.com/articles/creating-releases/

I'd avoid to use Portage API... that's why we are here, no?

Yes, it is surprising. For image processing algorithms you'll very likely use the PGM format for one thing or another. @ulidtko an alternative might be the package [friday](https://hackage.haskell.org/package/friday) (which uses...

The package was definitely built.

Yes, that seems to work, but as expected... cabal-helper fails with random errors. It's a plague, really.

``` Registering library for Cabal-2.2.0.0.. done [1 of 4] Compiling CabalHelper.Shared.Common ( /home/maerwald/.cache/cabal-helper/cabal-helper0.8.0.2-Cabal2.2.0.0.build/CabalHelper/Shared/Common.hs, /home/maerwald/.cache/cabal-helper/cabal-helper0.8.0.2-Cabal2.2.0.0.build/CabalHelper/Shared/Common.o ) [2 of 4] Compiling CabalHelper.Shared.InterfaceTypes ( /home/maerwald/.cache/cabal-helper/cabal-helper0.8.0.2-Cabal2.2.0.0.build/CabalHelper/Shared/InterfaceTypes.hs, /home/maerwald/.cache/cabal-helper/cabal-helper0.8.0.2-Cabal2.2.0.0.build/CabalHelper/Shared/InterfaceTypes.o ) [3 of 4] Compiling CabalHelper.Shared.Sandbox (...

`cabal-helper` is a terrible hack. It really just adds more fragility to the tooling ecosystem.

I don't see how this is related to the original issue, which was about using **cabal**.

> Looks like there is a non-exhaustive pattern match here: This isn't technically a non-exhaustive pattern, it's syntax sugar for MonadFail.