id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc	difficulty	ghcversion	platform
523	Config file not automatically generated if symlink-bindir is only item in config	guest		"I just spent an hour trying to make cabal-install work. After reading the README, I specified the symlink-bindir in the config file. The file did not exist so I created it. Then, when I executed an update, cabal complained that there was no specified repos. I searched and could not find what variable I needed to define in the config file. Then, after skimming the cabal source code, I noticed that the config file is automatically generated if it does not exist. So I deleted it and now all is fine because it was automatically generated.

So by following the README instructions by specifying a symlink-bindir variable in a config file I created, I was unable to make cabal work."	defect	closed	normal		Cabal library	1.6.0.2	minor	fixed	config		unknown