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Andres Löh authored
This adds a mechanism in the modular solver to store whether a flag is "strong" or "weak". A weak flag is deferred during solving, a strong flag is not. By default, flags are now weak unless they're manual. This is a change in behaviour, but I think it's probably the better default, because many automatic flags are used to figure out what's on the system rather than to impose hard constraints. There's a new flag --strong-flags that restores the old behaviour. I do not think such a global flag is particularly useful, but it may be of interest to compare build plans between the new and old behaviour. With these preparations, it's easy to make the distinction between strong and weak flags more sophisticated. We can either add more heuristics as to when flags should be treated as strong or weak, or we can add syntax to .cabal files that allows package authors to specify explicitly how they intend a flag to behave. This is related to various cabal-install issues, e.g. #1831, #1864, and #1877.
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