Bug#910280: pandoc: Please reduce the binary size
Jonas Smedegaard <jonas@jones.dk> writes:
> The proper solution here, I guess (but am not expert in Haskell so may
> be wrong) is to switch to using shared linking, so that 5 Haskell
> binaries will not consume 5 x the disk space of the parts reused among
> them.
Yes, in theory. But this didn't work well in practice
when arch linux tried it. It meant that installing
pandoc forced installation of a very large number of
dynamic libraries, and people really didn't like this.
https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/6jj8ha/whats_going_on_in_archlinux_pandoc_requires_1gb/
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