Comment by Vosporos
6 hours ago
That is entirely your distribution's fault. ArchLinux has a user-hostile packaging approach which I do not experience in Fedora.
6 hours ago
That is entirely your distribution's fault. ArchLinux has a user-hostile packaging approach which I do not experience in Fedora.
Arch Linux approach to python/haskell packaging is a great case study of what not to do...
Quite right, indeed
What does Arch do in particular to cause a mess? It's been a hot minute since I last used it and surely didn't use pandoc back then.
Haskell packages in arch are dynamically, rather than statically, linked, which pulls in a large amount of transitive dependencies (reportedly in the neighborhood of a gigabyte). The maintainer has a pretty reasonable (to my eyes) explanation[1] as to why this is the case, but admittedly if I were an arch user I'd probably find it a bit annoying.
[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/9emwtu/comment/e5qss...
They build and link all Haskell libraries dynamically.
I completely avoid any haskell package in Arch and just build it with Stack, it's usually simple.