haskell / haskell/cabal

Don't reuse `Simple` command argument parsing for `new-build` commands.

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cabal-install: v2-build system re: options type: refactor
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ATM `--help` is essentially useless. Adding `new-build` specific options is hard. There are a lot of flags that /might/ have effect.

As an example: `-f` for `new-build` and for `Setup.hs` could have different (former be a superset) semantics.

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