I wanted pre-announce or check here if people are concerned about my plan to drop profiling libraries of Fedora Linux’s Haskell libraries in future versions of fedora. (Note the ghc packages will continue to provide profiling libraries, though I am not sure how many people use those either.)
The motivation is mainly to reduce the overall build times & resource requirements and the number of subpackages of Fedora Haskell packages, since I have the feeling (possibly wrong?) that they are little used.
If you do use them and feel it is a problem or concern then do speak up!
It is still possible to change or delay the plan, though my intention is do it for Fedora 44 (releasing in May) if there is no pushback. In the “worst case” it wouldn’t be difficult to reintroduce them again in a later fedora release, but if they don’t get much usage it would save time and resources to drop them.
I think other distros are still shipping prof libs, so arguably it is slightly controversial: on the other hand I guess we would find out if they are really needed ;o)
Anyway please comment if you have concerns or thoughts on this.