Bug 1059513

Summary:	haddock duplicates common doc files in each library package
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Jens Petersen <petersen>
Component:	ghc	Assignee:	Jens Petersen <petersen>
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Description Jens Petersen 2014-01-30 03:34:43 UTC

Description of problem:
I think this was reported indirectly in some javascript
file duplication fedora mail report (ie for haddock-util.js).
Haddock duplicates some common files in the html doc
files in each package.  It would be better to have
only a single copy of them on a system and link to
them somehow if possible.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. rpm -qla ghc-*devel | grep css
(haddock puts too css files in the devel package html docs)

Actual results:
1. 613

Additional info:
Need to check more on feasibility.

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Comment 2 Jens Petersen 2018-05-01 10:33:37 UTC

This should really go upstream...

Comment 3 Jens Petersen 2020-02-02 01:50:07 UTC

The more I think about this, the more it seems impossible to fix...
(because symlinks will fail to open in a browser and hardlinks are "hard").

For ghc-8.6.5 this is 84KB per package.
While not great, compared to the size of library it is pretty small really.
500 libs adds up to about 41MB.

However we now subpackage haddocks in doc subpackages which are not installed by default
(ie ghc-*-devel doesn't pull them in), which largely solves the problem for Fedora completely.