alt Hacker NewsWhat 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.
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spider-mario • yesterday at 6:44 PM
They build and link all Haskell libraries dynamically.
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.
They build and link all Haskell libraries dynamically.
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...