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The pandoc binary I have is certainly large at 206MiB (more than I expected!), but it doesn't have any weird dependencies I can see. Just GMP, ncurses, and such. All the Haskell parts are statically linked, which is probably the reason it is so large.

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Arch Linux is linking dynamically, IIRC, and there it is 'only' 64 MiB: https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/haskell-pandoc/

It also pulls in about a hundred separate Haskell libraries along with it. Not really complaining, but it's funny that pandoc accounts for about half the programs on my laptop.

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