Eli Schwartz via arch-general <arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On 06/26/2017 02:45 AM, Óscar García Amor wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> Some days ago the pandoc mantainer [1] do a rebuild of it [2] where >> add a lot of haskell package dependencies. I think that the build >> changes the binary from statically linked to dinamically linked, but >> IMHO, I prefer the static one (55,08 MiB of package) over the dinamic >> (more than 666 MB in libraries). >> >> What do you think about this? >> >> Other solution can be have other package "pandoc-static", that >> maintains the previous method of package. >> >> Greetings. >> >> [1]: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/pandoc/ >> [2]: https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/commit/trunk?h=packages/pandoc&id=d340c92f8cf5686509551c08bcdaa0b5e66760b0 > > And same with shellcheck -- the general issue is that *all* > haskell-based packages now build dynamically linked against the haskell > runtime (which is huge, and few people have more than one or two > packages that need it). > > https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=227621 > https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=227477 > https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=227574 > https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/54564 > https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/54590 > https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/54588 > https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/54580 > > Seems like the official response is "just live with it, no one cares > what you say". > > 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 > > That being said, there are pandoc-lite and shellcheck-static packages in > the AUR which use upstream's prebuilt binaries and don't require the > whole haskell ecosystem as a dependency. Which seems fairly reasonable > to me. There's also the ArchHaskell repo: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ArchHaskell Some, but not all, binaries are split out into separate packages. Look for *-tool packages /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0x927912051716CE39 email: magnus@xxxxxxxxxxxx jabber: magnus@xxxxxxxxxxxx twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus The right to search for truth implies also a duty; one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be true. — Albert Einstein
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