Quoting kact...@gnu.org (2018-10-05 02:28:17) > > [2018-10-05 00:50] Jonas Smedegaard <jo...@jones.dk> > > Quoting John MacFarlane (2018-10-04 19:58:54) > > > Jonas Smedegaard <jo...@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. > > We could generate packages with compressed binaries in a way, similar > to *-dbg packages. All compiled languages, except C (Go, Rust, > Haskell) would benefit, but it is quite a bit of work -- changes to > debhelper and reprorepo, at least.
We could, yes. Personally I will not drive that effort, however. I encourage you to consider driving it yourself, KAction. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private