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

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 wrote:

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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