Subject: bug#51928: GHC 8.10 occupies 1.6 GiB

From: raingloom <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2021 21:45:28 +0100

On Sun, 28 Nov 2021 18:03:38 +0100
Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Maxim Cournoyer <[email-masked]> skribis:
> 
> > In Guix they aren't used typically (everything gets linked
> > dynamically);  
> 
> I think they’re used for ‘pandoc’.
> 
> Also, in general, we don’t want to make static linking impossible, so
> we could move .a files to a separate output as for ‘glibc’.
> 
> Ludo’.

If I recall correctly there was a discussion some months back about
Haskell binaries being smaller when linked statically.