Re: Subject : Statically-linked haskell packages

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On 6/26/26 11:28 AM, Erwin Iosef wrote:

 > as a user, I would appreciate it if Arch Linux were to switch to
statically-linked haskell packages. Maybe there's a good reason not to

Haskell is one of those 'fun' topics.

Its interesting to compare how other distros deal handle this.




shared lib advantage
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Disk space estimate
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may or may not be too accurate (thank you google):

Approx Disk Space Used (MB)
                              shellcheck
                               plus
           Distro  shellcheck pandoc    Num Packages
           ======= ========== ======    ============
  Debian / Ubuntu    23         80         2
           Fedora    45        120         5
           Arch     200       1000       150


In my case these were the only 2 haskell based applications:

(1) pandoc



  This got rid of the majority of haskell packages but not all.

(2) shellcheck



Thanks to all for bringing it up.

gene

Not an expert on this but looks like debian / ubuntu went the fully static route while fedora keeps a "core" set of shared libraries. Both approaches avoid the surging package update storm. Unless there are a lot of haskell apps being used at the same time, the shared lib benefits may quite negligible. I chose to remove pandoc and all it's haskell deps. I use sphinx for my own stuff have no need for it. Drags in a smaller group of haskell packages. I occasionally use this, but may remove this as well. Quite useful if writing bash scripts. I tend to program in C and python for the most part so my own need is minimal.

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