On 06/26/2017 08:23 PM, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote: > Which, to be fair, has some justification in that technically speaking, > statically-compiled haskell programs were an ugly bug. It's just a pity > haskell is such a terribly bloated ecosystem. :p Half a year ago we have a discussion here at arch-general about the dynamic linked future of haskell packages: https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2017-January/042925.html The basic idea is to make the haskell libraries in our official repos less bloated and more friendly to end users, instead of providing all development oriented features. Unfortunately I didn't get enough feedback on that topic. As the ghc package costs more than 1 GiB at that time, I planned to do the switch at 8.0.2 (with also the help of newly added dynlibdir). We still have something to do with the documentation. The HTML docs take some disk space and waste time to build indexes even with the help of a hook. Furthermore, the "ghc" library uses 129 MiB and is not needed if we are going to use ghc-pkg (for library registering) only. (haddock needs the ghc library and we use it to build doc indexes.) -- Regards, Felix Yan
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