On 2016-11-07 13:41:56, Joachim Breitner wrote: > Hi, > > in light of #842740 and regularly hitting resource boundaries, the > question arises if we should maybe stop shipping -prof libraries. > > The are slightly useful to me, and to anyone having a debian-package > based development flow, but I assume that there are only few such > people, as stack and nix-style cabal get better and better. I guess the more high-level question is what's the purpose of packaging Haskell in Debian: to allow people to build and run their Haskell applications (in which case -prof is not needed), or to allow people to also develop/debug/troubleshoot using only Debian packages? Purity would say the latter, but in practice it might I guess the more high-level question is what's the purpose of packaging Haskell in Debian: to allow people to build and run their Haskell applications (in which case -prof is not needed), or to allow people to also develop/debug/troubleshoot using only Debian packages? Purity would say the latter, but in practice it might be that build resources are better spent on the former. > I’m just throwing this out there; I’m not too convinced of either > option. Me neither, I think. iustin
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