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Why does Pandoc get updated nearly every day? (lemmy.ca)
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Please forgive the noobish question, but what's going on with a document converter that it gets such frequent updates (and by extension forces a ton of Haskell updates)?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I think it has to do with the way the Haskell packages are disturbed. So if you installed the pandoc from extra repository, and there was an update for any of the Haskell packages that pandoc depended on, then pandoc will have to be updated again. Meaning, instead of pandoc forcing Haskell updates, it is the other way around.

If you only use pandoc and don't normally program in Haskell, check out pandoc-bin. This way you will only get updates for pandoc itself and its dependencies won't force an update.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

Meaning, instead of pandoc forcing Haskell updates, it is the other way around.

Oh! That makes much more sense.