I was bitten by #8707 and I had no idea what was going on, had to search the issue tracker to find it.

Looks like now cabal haddock will with default settings (i.e. no documentation: True in the config file or --disable-documentation passed explicitly) lead to rebuild of all dependencies.

What is worse, if someone doesn't want to enable documentation: True, there seems to be no way to permanently disable this behavior.

This looks like a quite bad UX change to me.

Can this please be reverted? Or resolved in a better way.

PRs in question:

• cabal haddock imply enable-documentation #8259
• unbreak cabal haddock --disable-documentation #8330