[Haskell-cafe] Alternative dependencies in Cabal file

Duncan Coutts duncan.coutts at googlemail.com
Sun Apr 11 13:16:31 EDT 2010


On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 00:34 +0100, Henning Thielemann wrote:
> Matthias Reisner schrieb:
> > Thanks, I missed that the flags are set dynamically if a dependency 
> > cannot be satisfied.
> Only cabal-install does this, plain Cabal only takes flags that were set 
> by the user.

No, plain Cabal does it too.

You're thinking of the fact that only cabal-install does automatic
package dependency resolution. Both do automatic flag resolution.

Duncan



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