Hi,
On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 8:14 AM, Andres Löh
No, please do not remove it. Running install without --only causes all sorts of things to happen, because install is the magic command. The --only flag is for use after you have already run build and really only does the installation, i.e. It behaves comparable to Setup install.
Yes, I see from the code what it does, it's just that I think that the
option is obscure and very rarely used. It's not shown in the --help
output, though, so I guess it's not a big problem.
On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 8:46 AM, Conrad Parker
Ah, maybe the help text is ambiguous; I interpreted that as saying it "only installs the package in the current directory [not in some other directory]".
Perhaps rename --only to --no-reconfigure or so?
I don't think this name is better. "cabal install" runs the solver and installs all dependencies, while "install --only" only copies the files (like "make install"/"runghc Setup.[l]hs install"). -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments