Relative to other compilers and tools, ghc is huge. Packages (1): ghc-7.6.3-1 Total Download Size: 62.08 MiB Total Installed Size: 735.76 MiB Co

Relative to other compilers and tools, ghc is huge. Packages (1): ghc-7.6.3-1 Total Download Size: 62.08 MiB Total Installed Size: 735.76 MiB Compare this to _all_ of [base-devel][1], which is currently 156.27 MiB. [1]: https://www.archlinux.org/groups/x86_64/base-devel/ https://www.archlinux.org/groups/x86_64/base-devel/