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Link to known programs

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Since Sep 30, 2026.

  • #12403 by @philderbeast — open

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Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
72/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
haskell
Domain
documentation

Research direction

Open the Program options section of the Cabal configuration docs and inspect the known-program list for entries without notes. Identify documentation links for those programs and add them to the relevant entries; done means the previously unlinked entries have links to their documentation.

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Description

attention: pr-welcome documentation

What is wrong with the docs?
The list of known programs, in the Program options section, has many without notes. We could supply links to the docs for those at a minimum.

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