haskell/cabal

Failures on "unknown package" should list active repositories

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#7,661 opened on Sep 18, 2021

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attention: pr-welcomecabal-install: cmd/configuregood first issuere: error-messagetype: enhancement

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Suggested by @tomjaguarpaw in the HF slack. Joachim suggested that we might want to suppress this when active-repositories is the default. I think it wouldn't be too much line noise either way, especially since this error is not going to come up constantly, and when it does, the more context the better.

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Trace the code path that handles 'unknown package' errors and integrate the listing of active repositories in the error message.
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