[Hackage] #759: please clarify/document --remote-repo

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#759: please clarify/document --remote-repo
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  Reporter:  claus               |        Owner:         
      Type:  defect              |       Status:  new    
  Priority:  normal              |    Milestone:         
 Component:  cabal-install tool  |      Version:  1.8.0.6
  Severity:  normal              |     Keywords:         
Difficulty:  unknown             |   Ghcversion:         
  Platform:                      |  
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 I often find myself writing example code that I'd like to distribute via
 cabal, but without further burdening hackage with not generally useful
 packages.

 The source code has an undocumented(?) option `--remote-repo` that seems
 to serve that purpose, but there is little documentation, sometimes
 conflicting info, about how to put this to use.

 Mailing list threads:

  http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2010-November/085860.html

  http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2010-November/085900.html

 Repo layout descriptions (differs between hackage 1.0 and 2.0, which is
 hardcoded in `cabal-install`):

  http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/wiki/HackageDB

  http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/wiki/HackageDB/2.0/URIs

 Related tickets: #758, comment:6:ticket:428

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