Re: [arch-general] About rebuild of pandoc

2017-08-29 Thread João Miguel via arch-general
Hello! I hate every Haskell package related thing, so take what I say with a grain of salt. Have you considered using cblrepo? It's working fine for me, even for packages they didn't have yet. They have binary packages in an unofficial repository (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Unofficial_u

Re: [arch-general] About rebuild of pandoc

2017-08-29 Thread Ricardo Catalinas Jiménez via arch-general
Without trying to create a flame war, is there any chance to reconsider going back to use static linking with Cabal and Haskell programs? I ask for this because in my case, it has been pretty painful trying to use Cabal to build my code pulling multiple dependencies from Hackage, as I suffered man

Re: [arch-general] About rebuild of pandoc

2017-07-03 Thread Felix Yan
On 07/03/2017 02:48 PM, Sebastian Reuße via arch-general wrote: > Sebastian Reuße via arch-general writes: > >> Felix Yan writes: > >>> An idea is to provide an alternative package database in the ghc-static >>> package that only contains the boot libraries. You will need to ignore >>> global p

Re: [arch-general] About rebuild of pandoc

2017-07-02 Thread Sebastian Reuße via arch-general
Sebastian Reuße via arch-general writes: > Felix Yan writes: >> An idea is to provide an alternative package database in the ghc-static >> package that only contains the boot libraries. You will need to ignore >> global package database and specify that alternative path to use it. >> Does this

Re: [arch-general] About rebuild of pandoc

2017-06-27 Thread Magnus Therning
Eli Schwartz via arch-general writes: > On 06/26/2017 02:45 AM, Óscar García Amor wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> Some days ago the pandoc mantainer [1] do a rebuild of it [2] where >> add a lot of haskell package dependencies. I think that the build >> changes the binary from statically linked to di

Re: [arch-general] About rebuild of pandoc

2017-06-26 Thread Sebastian Reuße via arch-general
Hello Felix, Felix Yan writes: > On 06/26/2017 09:42 PM, Sebastian Reuße via arch-general wrote: >> Can you advise whether it’s currently possible to do sandboxed static >> builds at all? The issue I’m running into is that Cabal won’t install >> sandboxed dependencies if it sees that the corresp

Re: [arch-general] About rebuild of pandoc

2017-06-26 Thread Felix Yan
On 06/26/2017 09:42 PM, Sebastian Reuße via arch-general wrote: > Can you advise whether it’s currently possible to do sandboxed static > builds at all? The issue I’m running into is that Cabal won’t install > sandboxed dependencies if it sees that the corresponding packages are > already registere

Re: [arch-general] About rebuild of pandoc

2017-06-26 Thread Sebastian Reuße via arch-general
Hello Felix, Felix Yan writes: > The basic idea is to make the haskell libraries in our official repos > less bloated and more friendly to end users, instead of providing all > development oriented features. Unfortunately I didn't get enough > feedback on that topic. As the ghc package costs mor

Re: [arch-general] About rebuild of pandoc

2017-06-26 Thread Felix Yan
On 06/26/2017 08:23 PM, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote: > Which, to be fair, has some justification in that technically speaking, > statically-compiled haskell programs were an ugly bug. It's just a pity > haskell is such a terribly bloated ecosystem. :p Half a year ago we have a discussion h

Re: [arch-general] About rebuild of pandoc

2017-06-26 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
On 06/26/2017 02:45 AM, Óscar García Amor wrote: > Hello all, > > Some days ago the pandoc mantainer [1] do a rebuild of it [2] where > add a lot of haskell package dependencies. I think that the build > changes the binary from statically linked to dinamically linked, but > IMHO, I prefer the stat

[arch-general] About rebuild of pandoc

2017-06-25 Thread Óscar García Amor
Hello all, Some days ago the pandoc mantainer [1] do a rebuild of it [2] where add a lot of haskell package dependencies. I think that the build changes the binary from statically linked to dinamically linked, but IMHO, I prefer the static one (55,08 MiB of package) over the dinamic (more than 666