On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 10:12:07AM +0000, Edd Barrett wrote: > On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 09:41:30PM +0100, Matthias Kilian wrote: > > Remove postscript and pdf documentation. > > > > The haddock manual and the ghc users guide are already available > > as HTML, and everything else in Haskell land (especially all the > > libraries) is HTML only, so there's no point in keeping them. > > > > This may help edd@ to work on even more minimal minimalistic texlive > > packages. > > Great, thanks. It looks like we may be able to drop the following tex > packages from the buildset: > zapfding, symbol, url, eepic, courier, times, helvetic, rsfs. > > Before I test that, I will wait for the results of espie's experiment. > He was trying to remove dvips from the buildset.
With ghc need for dvips gone, consider the experiment successful. Remove dvips from the buildset. *everything* I see in build logs is random detection and use of dvips, thus it *will* break some bulk builds.
