Quickstart guide refers to `v2-` commands about cabal HOT 6 CLOSED

While people are thinking about this, when I recently submitted a cabal bug the reporting template told me to explicitly use v2- commands for clarity. This should probably change as well.

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@tomjaguarpaw my view is: absolutely, please go ahead with the PR. Unless someone more experienced raises a substantial concern, we'll merge it.

Previews stub at fixing docs w.r.t. v1-vs-v2 in the reference section of the manual:

• #8020
  • rebased version of #6703

The page you're reporting has been reported before:

• #6213

A more generic discussion on the topic:

• #6104

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Thanks, I submitted #9087

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@geekosaur by all means. I added a checkbox in #8511 Contributions are welcome!

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I'm the "user in the wild" mentioned in the bug report. I just ran into the same thing that @geekosaur said:

➜ cabal update
Downloading the latest package list from hackage.haskell.org
Updated package list of hackage.haskell.org to the index-state 2023-07-06T14:48:07Z
To revert to previous state run:
    cabal v2-update 'hackage.haskell.org,2022-11-02T09:30:00Z'

I assume that I can drop the v2 prefix?

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@seanhess yes, you can. Perhaps, you'd like to submit a patch removing v2 from there? It's one grep and one change away, I'm sure.

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