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The previous approach in #4405 would no longer work, due to @qrilka's explanation in #4405 (comment). This implementation adds a new flag --global-hints which allows the user to bypass the need for an installation of GHC. We could arguably flip the default to not requiring GHC to be installed.

This will close #4390.

Note: Documentation fixes for https://docs.haskellstack.org/en/stable/ should target the "stable" branch, not master.

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This flag allows us to bypass the need for an installation of GHC for
these commands, at the cost of not getting completely accurate
information on packages that ship with GHC.

* Fixes #4390
* Closes #4405
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Other than a small not about commented out code looks good to me

@snoyberg snoyberg merged commit 7b1ad17 into master Mar 18, 2019
@snoyberg snoyberg deleted the 4390-dot-doesnt-need-ghc branch March 18, 2019 11:54
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Simple commands should work without ghc installed

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