[arch-haskell] Fwd: gitit status update and why are deps needed for binaries

[Magnus Therning]

On 14 April 2015 at 02:21, Nicola Squartini <tensor5 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Nicola Squartini <tensor5 at gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 9:20 AM
> Subject: Re: [arch-haskell] gitit status update and why are deps needed for
> binaries
> To: Bastien Traverse <neitsab at esrevart.net>
>
>
> Solving the problem of pandoc and gitit binaries taking so much space, would
> require splitting the packages in two. Right now haskell-pandoc and
> haskell-gitit are packaged with binaries and modules inside, and the module
> part depend on all the other packages, including GHC. If we split each of
> them into two, say pandoc (binaries) and haskell-pandoc (modules), then you
> could just install the binaries without having to depend on GHC.

The reasons we don't do that sort of splitting are two:

1. The tool that helps with packaging `clbrepo` doesn't support it,
and most importantly
2. splitting into -bin and -dev packages, like in Debian/Ubuntu/...,
isn't the norm in Arch

/M

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