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August 27, 2025

I don’t use Cabal that often, and I manage almost everything with Stack. I accidently installed a package (bhoogle) that adds nothing to Hoogle, but there’s no cabal delete or cabal uninstall, you know. So I simply nuked the whole $HOME/.cabal directory that GHCup installed for me with an older version of Cabal. And now I can’t get it back. Instead, Cabal now follows the XDG Base Directory Specification, which means compiled stuff will end up in $HOME/.local/state. Let’s go for another env variable (CABAL_DIR) then. #haskell