On 14 April 2015 at 13:51, SP <[email protected]> wrote: > On 14/04/15 06:42, Magnus Therning wrote: >> On 14 April 2015 at 02:21, Nicola Squartini <[email protected]> wrote: >>> 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.
Patches are always welcome. :) >> 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. We don't really have to include the core team at all. ArchHaskell isn't an official part of Arch so we can do what we want. However, following the path of least surprise would suggest we don't stray too far away from the Arch way. /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: [email protected] jabber: [email protected] twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus _______________________________________________ arch-haskell mailing list [email protected] http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/arch-haskell
