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 2 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 7 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.