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+**UPDATE:** We recommend that people move away from cabal-dev, now that cabal-install supports sandboxes natively (in versions >= 1.18). Here's a blog post that describes how to use cabal-install sandboxes: http://coldwa.st/e/blog/2013-07-30-Cabal-sandbox.html
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 # Cabal Dev
 ## Motivation