Should cabal repl read ~/.ghci?

[dag]

I import a lot of stuff in my ~/.ghci and also do things like :set -interactive-print using packages that aren't universally included in build-depends with the result that cabal repl spews a lot of errors and warnings on startup. I also :set -X a lot of extensions which could potentially cause problems of syntax and semantics changing, potentially in incompatible ways with some code bases.

My personal preference would be for cabal repl to read ./.ghci and possibly something like ~/.cabal/repl but not ~/.ghci.

[23Skidoo]

/cc @dcoutts