Hello Felix, Felix Yan <felixonmars@archlinux.org> writes:
The basic idea is to make the haskell libraries in our official repos less bloated and more friendly to end users, instead of providing all development oriented features. Unfortunately I didn't get enough feedback on that topic. As the ghc package costs more than 1 GiB at that time, I planned to do the switch at 8.0.2 (with also the help of newly added dynlibdir).
Can you advise whether it’s currently possible to do sandboxed static builds at all? The issue I’m running into is that Cabal won’t install sandboxed dependencies if it sees that the corresponding packages are already registered within the global package DB; the build will proceed but will then error out during static linking. It’s possible to force Cabal/GHC to ignore the global package database altogether, but this won’t help much since it will cause the boot libraries to be ignored as well. Kind regards, Sebastian -- Insane cobra split the wood Trader of the lowland breed Call a jittney, drive away In the slipstream we will stay