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

[Nicola Squartini]

No gitit doesn't have that flag.
Even in the case of pandoc, it will not make your installation smaller,
just embed the support files (/usr/share I guess) inside the
/usr/bin/pandoc binary.

On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 6:49 PM, Bastien Traverse <neitsab at esrevart.net>
wrote:

> Still on the topic of reducing installation dependencies: are
> self-contained binaries in the style of pandoc [1] doable for gitit and
> other Haskell packages as well? This could be an interesting way to
> address the issue.
>
> > It is possible to compile pandoc such that the data files pandoc uses
> > are embedded in the binary. (The executables in the binary are built
> > this way.) The resulting binary can be run from any directory and is
> > completely self-contained.
> >
> >  cabal update
> >  cabal install hsb2hs
> >  cabal install --flags="embed_data_files" pandoc pandoc-citeproc
>
> [1] http://pandoc.org/installing.html#creating-a-relocatable-binary
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