Improving GHC environment file related errors #8540
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cabal-install: environment-files
re: error-message
Concerning error messages delivered to the user
re: install --lib
Concerning `cabal install --lib`
Inspired by this stackoverflow question,
When running commands such as
cabal install --lib bytestring
the result may depend on what is already in the default environment file. However, cabal will not really tell you that. It only says things like:And
I think it would be good to show exactly where these constraints come from, e.g. with file names and line numbers.
Also I think it would be useful to have a general warning/info message about which environment files are used.
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