Re: proptotype of make style dep stuff

I've also wondered if the command line UI could be completely separated, though that could make bootstrapping too hard. You could distribute a "bootstrapping" version of cabal shipping with the command line UI as hidden modules. If you build cabal later on you could just shipt without the files for the command line UI, then the external command line gui would be used. Of course the local bootstrapping copy must be updated when the command line gui lib is changed. Not sure wether this makes much sense then.

Marc