[Hackage] #694: mention --constraint flag in error essage when dep planning fails

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Mon Mar 5 13:07:57 CET 2012


#694: mention --constraint flag in error essage when dep planning fails
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  Reporter:  duncan              |        Owner:                    
      Type:  enhancement         |       Status:  new               
  Priority:  normal              |    Milestone:  cabal-install-0.14
 Component:  cabal-install tool  |      Version:                    
  Severity:  normal              |     Keywords:                    
Difficulty:  easy (<4 hours)     |   Ghcversion:                    
  Platform:                      |  
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Changes (by kosmikus):

  * milestone:  => cabal-install-0.14


Comment:

 The modular solver gives quite different kinds of error messages. We
 should revisit the issue of providing good feedback on dependency failure.
 But I don't think it can generally be reduced to suggesting a particular
 {{{--constraint}}} flag.

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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/694#comment:1>
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