[darcs-devel] [issue2636] executable flag can get turned off automatically

[Ben Franksen]

Ben Franksen <ben.franksen at online.de> added the comment:

> The 'executable' flag can get turned off automatically by cabal, e.g. when 
> there are mismatched dependencies between the executable and the library.
> 
> This is unlikely to be what people want and leads to problems like in 
> issue2635.

Do we need this flag at all? With modern cabal we can select which
component(s) to build on the command line, so we would only loose the
ability to configure this statically in cabal.project[.local]. I
personally wouldn't miss that, so if it were just me I would throw it out.

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