[GHC] #7017: Rethink need for tarballs under "friendly" environment

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#7017: Rethink need for tarballs under "friendly" environment
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 Reporter:  FUZxxl            |          Owner:                  
     Type:  task              |         Status:  new             
 Priority:  normal            |      Component:  Build System    
  Version:  7.4.2             |       Keywords:                  
       Os:  Unknown/Multiple  |   Architecture:  Unknown/Multiple
  Failure:  Other             |       Testcase:                  
Blockedby:                    |       Blocking:                  
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 I just compiled GHC from git.

 I am amazed that one needs to download extra 200 MiB of tarballs and 100
 MiB of libraries to compile GHC. The tarballs directory essentially only
 includes a Perl and a MinGW binary. Is this really needed for anything if
 not building under environments like Windows where getting that might be
 difficult?

 It would certainly be nice to rethink the building system as to shrink the
 number of additional MiB's one needs to download to make the compiler
 work.

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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/7017>
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