[Bug 911725] ghc-ghc-devel not required?

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Product: Fedora
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=911725

--- Comment #2 from Jens Petersen <petersen at 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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