Hi, On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 8:14 AM, Andres Löh <and...@well-typed.com> wrote: > > 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 <con...@metadecks.org> wrote: > > 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 _______________________________________________ cabal-devel mailing list cabal-devel@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cabal-devel
