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

On 24.11.12 18:22, Ben Millwood wrote:

On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 2:25 PM, Roman Beslik wrote:

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http://www.haskell.org/cabal/users-guide/developing-packages.html#package-de... {{{ 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. }}} ?

My understanding is that you want the negation of this (i.e. "Second, if the flag is /not/ manual [...]"). Yes, I have made this stupid mistake in my interpretation. :)