Personally, I think multiple options in this regard is a failure. We aught to have one path that works for the vast majority of use cases. The reason is that there are many build and packaging choices in getting from source to installed tool chain, and each of these paths makes them differently... which leads to just tons of incompatibility and confusion.

If the community wants minimal installers - fine - I wish we had one way not two or three. The Platform has a very complete and automated build - and installers tested on a wide variety of OS versions - it could easily be adapted to a more minimal approach (as per my GPS proposal a way back) if that's what we want.

I'd really like to invite folks creating minimal installers to rally around the large body of work, experience, and code in building the Haskell Platform installers. They could easily fashion minimal builds from it (with the Shake build system this is now like a single .hs file of work...)... then perhaps we could have Platform "minimal" and "full" releases.