cabal list should make it clear that a package is old/deprecated
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cabal-install: other
re: deprecated packages and versions
type: enhancement
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So we just had someone in #yi install a deprecated package (marked as deprecated) from 2008:
```
cabal list yi gives the following
* yi-gtk
Synopsis: The Haskell-Scriptable Editor, helper package
Default available version: 0.3
Installed versions: 0.3
Homepage: http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Yi
License: GPL
Nothing about deprecation, or date
```
It seems to me that cabal should make at least some attempt to communicate that this may in fact not be the right package to install.
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