box% stack new local-playground
Downloading template "new-template" to create project "local-playground" in local-playground/ ...
                                                                           
The following parameters were needed by the template but not provided: category
You can provide them in /home/joel/.stack/config.yaml, like this:
templates:
  params:
    category: value
Or you can pass each one as parameters like this:
stack new local-playground new-template -p "category:value"

Looking for .cabal or package.yaml files to use to init the project.       
Using cabal packages:                                                      
- local-playground/                                                        

Selecting the best among 18 snapshots...                                   

* Matches https://raw.githubusercontent.com/commercialhaskell/stackage-snapshots/master/lts/16/25.yaml
                                                                           
Selected resolver: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/commercialhaskell/stackage-snapshots/master/lts/16/25.yaml
Initialising configuration using resolver: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/commercialhaskell/stackage-snapshots/master/lts/16/25.yaml
Total number of user packages considered: 1                                
Writing configuration to file: local-playground/stack.yaml                 
All done.                                                                  
/home/joel/.stack/templates/new-template.hsfiles:    3.72 KiB downloaded...
box% cd local-playground 
box% stack build
No setup information found for ghc-8.8.4 on your platform.
This probably means a GHC bindist has not yet been added for OS key 'linux64-nopie'.
Supported versions: ghc-7.8.4, ghc-7.10.1, ghc-7.10.2, ghc-7.10.3, ghc-8.0.1, ghc-8.0.2, ghc-8.2.1, ghc-8.2.2, ghc-8.4.1, ghc-8.4.2, ghc-8.4.3, ghc-8.4.4, ghc-8.6.1, ghc-8.6.2, ghc-8.6.3, ghc-8.6.4, ghc-8.6.5, ghc-8.8.1
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