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▲ drnick1 2 hours ago

Just keep in mind that some people like me avoid Haskell and the huge package mess it causes on Linux. Pandoc is infamous for that. Just stick to C++.

▲kccqzy 34 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Does your distro not statically link Haskell libraries the way it’s meant to? Installing pandoc only requires libgmp.

▲Vosporos 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

That is entirely your distribution's fault. ArchLinux has a user-hostile packaging approach which I do not experience in Fedora.

▲klez an hour ago | parent | next [-]

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.

▲nimih 3 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

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...

▲spider-mario 8 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

They build and link all Haskell libraries dynamically.

▲Ambolia an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

I completely avoid any haskell package in Arch and just build it with Stack, it's usually simple.