Quoting John MacFarlane (2018-10-04 19:58:54) > Jonas Smedegaard <jo...@jones.dk> writes: > > > The proper solution here, I guess (but am not expert in Haskell so > > may be wrong) is to switch to using shared linking, so that 5 > > Haskell binaries will not consume 5 x the disk space of the parts > > reused among them. > > Yes, in theory. But this didn't work well in practice when arch linux > tried it. It meant that installing pandoc forced installation of a > very large number of dynamic libraries, and people really didn't like > this. > > https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/6jj8ha/whats_going_on_in_archlinux_pandoc_requires_1gb/
Well, seems they chose to not properly separate development code from runtime code. Try install a single KDE program program - e.g. Krita - on an otherwise GNOME or Xfce system - that'll also pull in several hundred megabytes. But then the next one will not. I would expect similarly that installing Pandoc as the _only_ application written in Haskell would pull in maybe 50 MB or maybe 150 MB (but not 1GB when sensibly packaged) and then installing another Haskell-based application would require far less. But I don't know. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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