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

[Nicola Squartini]

On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 10:19 PM, Bastien Traverse <neitsab at esrevart.net>
wrote:

> Le 14/04/2015 02:20, Nicola Squartini a écrit :
> > 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.
>
> Thanks, that's the information I was looking for. I hadn't understood
> that pandoc and gitit could be split in different parts from their
> regular installation instructions. How does one do so?
>

 You can pull out /usr/bin/gitit and the other files in /usr/share  from
the package, and upload only those to your server (once the gitit package
is back).
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