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`cabal update`: option to print which packages were updated

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#7,801 opened on Nov 7, 2021

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cabal-install: cmd/updategood first issuepriority: lowtype: enhancement

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Description

Improve cabal update to print the list of packages that were updated.
Could be guarded by -v1 (or maybe -v is only used for debug information?).

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Locate the implementation of the 'cabal update' command in the codebase. Understand how it fetches package lists and track the output mechanism. Add a flag (e.g., v1) to display updated packages list.
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