Ticket #307 (closed enhancement: worksforme)
Allow specifying alternative source and target package databases other than --user and --global
| Reported by: | fons | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | |
| Component: | Cabal library | Version: | 1.2.3.0 |
| Severity: | normal | Keywords: | |
| Cc: | Difficulty: | normal | |
| GHC Version: | 6.8.2 | Platform: |
Description
Sometimes, it is useful to use alternative target/source package databases (e.g. for testing that the installation of a package with custom hooks works, without poisoning the global or user databases).
GHC allows doing that through ghc's and ghc-pkg's -package-conf flag. However, there's no equivalent in Cabal.
Thus, I suggest adding new -package-conf flag to the configure, install and register commands.
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