Hi Ricardo and Jakub, Ah ok. Sorry I had forgotten the point of the thread. Sounds like a plan!
- John On Aug 7, 2020, at 8:59 AM, Ricardo Wurmus <rek...@elephly.net> wrote: Jakub Kądziołka <k...@kadziolka.net> writes: >> On Fri, Aug 07, 2020 at 08:12:36AM -0700, John Soo wrote: >> I would rather wait until some evidence that the closure size would be too >> large. Also I’m not sure propagation is necessary for dependents to find >> libraries or use paths from an input. > > Ricardo already explained that this is indeed the case. Yes, and for the case of pandoc it’s significant. The closure of ghc-pandoc is >3GiB right now and with the changes it’s <200MiB. This affects lots of R packages that need Rmarkdown, and lots of bioinfo packages. There's no doubt that moving the static libs to their own output has a significant impact on closure size. -- Ricardo
