haskell / haskell/cabal

Remove default `optional-packages`, i.e .make it empty.

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Currently `optional-packages` default is `./*/*.cabal` https://cabal.readthedocs.io/en/latest/nix-local-build.html#cfg-field-optional-packages

Which is just confusing. See e.g. https://github.com/phadej/cabal-fmt/issues/6

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I never benefited from default `optional-packages`

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