Re: merge wip-haskell?

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

> Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> skribis:
>
>> Yes, and for the case of pandoc it’s significant.  The closure of
>> ghc-pandoc is >3GiB right now and with the changes it’s <200MiB.  This
>> affects lots of R packages that need Rmarkdown, and lots of bioinfo
>> packages.
>
> Are those changes part of what was merged?  I get:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> $ guix describe
> Generacio 153 Aug 24 2020 10:53:47    (nuna)
>   guix c687299
>     repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
>     branch: master
>     commit: c6872990b51971922f3064cba54ab752fcdc1559
> $ guix size ghc-pandoc | tail -1
> total: 2033.0 MiB
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> Or am I missing something?

Try the “pandoc” package instead.  There are now two packages:
“ghc-pandoc” for the regular old shared library thing and “pandoc” for
this static linking abomination.

(Similarly for “ghc-pandoc-citeproc” and “pandoc-citeproc”.)

I should note that it doesn’t help with one case I had in mind: “guix
pack” still includes way too much, unfortunately, so there is no impact
on application bundle size yet.

-- 
Ricardo