Hey all,
There are some grumblings about the "650M install" size for ghc 6.12
Arch package. A lot of this can't be helped, and disk is cheap, but it
might be worth a check to see how we're packaging GHC.
On Fedora, for example, they ship the prof libs in a separate package,
so their install size is 270M (around half).
Maybe we should do that?
As a comparison, the compressed package sizes on various distros:
GHC package on Arch: 109M
Mac installer: 138M
Windows installer: 55M
Now, maybe this isn't a bug in the Arch packaging for GHC (and there are
various things we can do to bring down the size, such as using dynlibs
or split objects).
-- Don
