Haskell, OCaml, Chicken, and other compilers that we package have a serious issue that many of us are aware of: they cannot be built from source! They rely upon pre-built binaries of the same compiler. I understand that it's very inconvenient to not have these compilers available to us, and all of the software that is written in their respective languages, but I feel like all of our work is undermined by making exceptions for them. I would like to remove compilers that don't have a bunch of dependent packages yet such as Chicken until upstream fixes the issue. But we have tons of Haskell packages and a handful of OCaml packages and it would be heartbreaking to some to remove all of that hard work.
What can we possibly do to avoid being yet another distro that relies on a bunch of blobs (leaving the *true* bootstrap binaries out of it for now)? - Dave
