Product: Fedora https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=911725
--- Comment #4 from fedvasu vadie.developer@gmail.com --- (In reply to comment #2)
(In reply to comment #0)
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".
uninstalling ghc-ghc-devel also gets rid of ghc package(base O MB) but then again why should I download 34 MB if I know I am gonna uninstall it anyway ?.
I think it is natural for anyone who wants to install ghc, to do yum install ghc , the problem is ghc-ghc-devel is set as dependency, I can't install ghc without ghc-ghc-devel.
I don't want to install haskell-platform, it comes with some other things, which I don't need/want or even know how to use.
My request is simple, remove ghc-ghc-devel package from the deps of ghc. I can live with current deps (grudgingly :)),but would be cool if u remove some bloat though.