Product: Fedora
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=911725
--- Comment #2 from Jens Petersen <petersen(a)redhat.com> ---
(In reply to comment #0)
I am the culprit for this bloat problem
Why do you install the main "ghc" binary package?
this package takes up too much space (~ 240 MB installed)
and 34 MB
Then don't install it. :)
Expected results:
should not install ghc-ghc-devel package as part of base install.
If you don't want ghc-ghc* installed then you can just
install the ghc-devel (ghc-libraries) metapackage instead.
This is what Jens wrote : "
> Maybe we really want the ghc base package to be a meta package
> that pulls in "everything" to make the initial install friendlier
> for newcomers.
Ok, ghc-7.0.4-36.fc17 should provide a base metapackage
which installs all of ghc (ghc-compiler and ghc-devel).
So in future if you install ghc you will have a working
QuickCheck, etc out of the box.
"
by adding
ghc-ghc-devel, we have internals/implementation of ghc as static library not
static/devel packages of quickCheck,parsec etc.
Pardon?
but ghc-ghc-devel is going too far. Only those who hack on ghc need
this
(specifically who want to hack on this particular version others will track
and program for latest git/darcs version).
So just "yum remove ghc-ghc".
I didn't realize about this space problem, untill I ran out of
space on my
old Fedora 16 on my root partition, found out that ghc installation took
~530 MB installed space.
Yes there are a lot of big libs and they take up space.
If you don't need them then it is find to remove them.
I am not sure about ghc-compiler package though, anyone more
experienced in
haskell packaging can chime in.
What about it?
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