Re: can't understand the Cabal manual. flag, manual

23 Nov 2012


      On 23.11.12 16:33, Brandon Allbery wrote:
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On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 9:25 AM, Roman Beslik mailto:rabeslik@gmail.com> wrote:
{{{
    manual: boolean (default: False)
    By default, Cabal will first try to satisfy dependencies with the
    default flag value and then, if that is not possible, with the
    negated value. However, if the flag is manual, then the default
    value (which can be overridden by commandline flags) will be used.
    }}}
    Can I interpret this as {{{
    First, Cabal tries to satisfy dependencies with the default flag
    value. Second, if the flag is manual, Cabal tries to satisfy
    dependencies with the negated flag value.
    }}} ?
That describes it in the default case.  The point is more that it will
try all possibilities for a flag which is not "manual: True" but only
use the exact setting specified in the latter case.
Sorry, I still don't get it.