Re: [arch-haskell] Fwd: gitit status update and why are deps needed for binaries

On 14 April 2015 at 02:21, Nicola Squartini wrote:

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Nicola Squartini Date: Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 9:20 AM Subject: Re: [arch-haskell] gitit status update and why are deps needed for binaries To: Bastien Traverse

Solving the problem of pandoc and gitit binaries taking so much space, would require splitting the packages in two. Right now haskell-pandoc and haskell-gitit are packaged with binaries and modules inside, and the module part depend on all the other packages, including GHC. If we split each of them into two, say pandoc (binaries) and haskell-pandoc (modules), then you could just install the binaries without having to depend on GHC.

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 2. splitting into -bin and -dev packages, like in Debian/Ubuntu/..., isn't the norm in Arch /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: magnus@therning.org jabber: magnus@therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus