[arch-general] About rebuild of pandoc

[Magnus Therning]

Eli Schwartz via arch-general <arch-general at archlinux.org> writes:

> On 06/26/2017 02:45 AM, Óscar García Amor wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> Some days ago the pandoc mantainer [1] do a rebuild of it [2] where
>> add a lot of haskell package dependencies. I think that the build
>> changes the binary from statically linked to dinamically linked, but
>> IMHO, I prefer the static one (55,08 MiB of package) over the dinamic
>> (more than 666 MB in libraries).
>>
>> What do you think about this?
>>
>> Other solution can be have other package "pandoc-static", that
>> maintains the previous method of package.
>>
>> Greetings.
>>
>> [1]: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/pandoc/
>> [2]: https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/commit/trunk?h=packages/pandoc&id=d340c92f8cf5686509551c08bcdaa0b5e66760b0
>
> And same with shellcheck -- the general issue is that *all*
> haskell-based packages now build dynamically linked against the haskell
> runtime (which is huge, and few people have more than one or two
> packages that need it).
>
> https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=227621
> https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=227477
> https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=227574
> https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/54564
> https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/54590
> https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/54588
> https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/54580
>
> Seems like the official response is "just live with it, no one cares
> what you say".
>
> Which, to be fair, has some justification in that technically speaking,
> statically-compiled haskell programs were an ugly bug. It's just a pity
> haskell is such a terribly bloated ecosystem. :p
>
> That being said, there are pandoc-lite and shellcheck-static packages in
> the AUR which use upstream's prebuilt binaries and don't require the
> whole haskell ecosystem as a dependency. Which seems fairly reasonable
> to me.

There's also the ArchHaskell repo:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ArchHaskell

Some, but not all, binaries are split out into separate packages. Look
for *-tool packages

/M

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