Test suite for `cabal` the binary should be isolated/independent
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Description
Currently, `cabal-testsuite` (which seems to be the main way cabal the binary is tested) cannot be used as a stand-alone binary to run the tests.
The reasons seem to be:
- it requires sources that are part of the repository
- there is a generated module that depends on the current cached `LocalBuildInfo` and hardcodes it into the binary, which then is used to reconstruct arguments to `ghc` when compiling tests
- it's not clear to me whether this is only required for the `Setup.hs` tests or the `cabal-install` binary tests as well (e.g. there is `--skip-setup-tests` but my observation is that this isn't really enough)
The end goal I have is:
- build and test is strictly separated in CI and the test step does not involve building anything other than the tests
- tests can be run on the end users system (ultimately through GHCup)
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