[darcs-devel] [patch1930] resolve issue2636: make executable flag manual

[Ben Franksen]

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

>> Does this still allow to use darcs as a local package e.g. for darcsden?
> 
> It should do - it just means it won't get turned off silently because
> the cabal solver had some problem with its dependencies. If you
> definitely need it off then you probably needed to do so explicitly
> already, since it defaulted to on unless there was a problem.

Okay, understood. No objections, then. Indeed, cabal turning the
executable flag off in order to resolve dependencies is really no help
for someone who wants to install darcs using cabal (even /if/ that makes
it build the library, which is questionable).

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