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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This should really go upstream...
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.