Feature Idea: --no-remote-fetching flag

[Mikhail Glushenkov]

Hi Adam,

On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 6:46 PM, Adam Foltzer <acfoltzer at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'd be willing to explore implementing this myself, if it would be
> appropriate for a first-time cabal hacker. I'm also quite interested to hear
> whether this would be a useful feature for others, or other ways you might
> propose to address the problem.

I have an old patch lying around that implements offline mode for
'cabal install'. You may be interested in taking a look:

https://github.com/23Skidoo/cabal/commits/offline-mode

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