Do the current packages include the dynamically linkable libs? If the apps are going to require the installation of the Haskell libs they depend on anyway, maybe having them dynamically link to the Haskell libs, rather than statically link them in, would save a good chunk of disk space, not to mention linking time.

On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 4:51 AM, SP <sp@orbitalfox.com> wrote:

I am for some kind of splitting. See below.

On 14/04/15 06:42, Magnus Therning wrote:
> On 14 April 2015 at 02:21, Nicola Squartini <tensor5@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Solving the problem of pandoc and gitit binaries taking so much space, would
>> require splitting the packages in two. [..]
>
> The reasons we don't do that sort of splitting are two:
>
> 1. The tool that helps with packaging `clbrepo` doesn't support it,
> and most importantly

Maybe it is a call for looking into such support. Haskell packages are
huge! There has to be a significant population of users which want a
lean & mean machine. It takes about 900 MiB of installation size for
haskell-conduit. Addressing this will help with adoption.

> 2. splitting into -bin and -dev packages, like in Debian/Ubuntu/...,
> isn't the norm in Arch

Maybe not -bin and -dev then, but something has to give. I didn't see
anything against it in the packaging standards. We can liaise with the
core team to find out the Arch-y way for this issue.

--
SP

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