From 28427b03e779a2c5c2e29e0d47a65ed52326b712 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Julian Ospald Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2018 14:43:29 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] Improve README --- README.md | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index bedc492..d9bc53f 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -29,9 +29,11 @@ In addition this script can also install `cabal-install`. ## Why -I don't use stack, but `cabal new-*` and system GHC versions +`cabal new-*` manages your haskell packages, but not GHC versions, since +it follows the unix philosophy. Unfortunately system GHC versions are often either outdated or cannot be installed in parallel -with proper symlink management. +with proper symlink management on many distros. This tool +tries to fill that gap and be fairly distro-agnostic. Inspired by [rustup](https://github.com/rust-lang-nursery/rustup.rs).