bzlmod: “bazel mod” should fail if bzlmod is disabled #21303
Description
Description of the feature request:
It would be nice to have bazel mod failing with a fixed exit code when common —-noenable_bzlmod is set in .bazelrc. Right now, bazel mod always succeed.
Which category does this issue belong to?
External Dependency
What underlying problem are you trying to solve with this feature?
Standalone tools (tools that are not managed or distributed in-repo by Bazel) have a need to detect whether a repository is using bzlmod or not.
Let’s say we have an internal tool that’s get distributed with go install .../abc-cli@latest. The abc cli needs to know whether the current repo is using bzlmod programmatically to change it’s behavior accordingly.
Which operating system are you running Bazel on?
MacOS
What is the output of bazel info release?
7.0.2
If bazel info release returns development version or (@non-git), tell us how you built Bazel.
No response
What's the output of git remote get-url origin; git rev-parse HEAD ?
No response
Have you found anything relevant by searching the web?
No response