[Haskell-cafe] Data.StateVar and packages sizes (Was: How to contact OpenGL package maintainer)

[Henning Thielemann]

Joachim Breitner schrieb:

> Am Sonntag, den 17.04.2011, 12:39 -0700 schrieb Jason Dagit:
> 
> 
>> In this specific case, I'll do what I can to clean things up but your
>> request makes me pause and think that the debian packaging for cabal
>> packages is not automated enough.  As haskell developers it seems a
>> little odd to me that we need to consider the cost of creating new
>> packages for the sake of debian.  I like debian, so please don't take
>> that the wrong way :)
> 
> the observation is correct, but unfortunately hard to change – Debian is
> large, slow moving, and unlikely to change policies for a corner-case
> such as Haskell libraries. 

As a user I had the impression that the packages become more and more
divided into smaller packages (like TeX) and I found this useful, since
I only need space for the functionality that I really use.