How to convert .md to .pdf most efficently

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I’m on NixOS unstable and installing pandoc alone would lead to these 160 paths will be fetched (298.60 MiB download, 3918.66 MiB unpacked):

I think this is absurd and tried to look into the source of the package to see if there are any options to uncheck but i didn’t see any.

  1. Is this install size normal? I don’t remember it being this excessive…
  2. What is the leanest way to convert .md to .pdf? I would be willing to just convert to .html and then open the file in my browser and “print” it as .pdf if this saves on dependencies/disk space.
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Oh damn, it’s not supposed to be this big, check the graph of the closure size on Hydra: Hydra - nixpkgs:trunk:pandoc.x86_64-linux, see how it previously was a fraction of what it is now.

Something must’ve gone wrong recently to make it explode this much.

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There’s already an open issue about this: Pandoc closure size has exploded again · Issue #264399 · NixOS/nixpkgs · GitHub

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Thanks! I just discovered htmldoc (only 5MB) and will give it a shot tomorrow.

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Thanks for the heads up. This is definitely wrong, the Pandoc closure should be about 200Mb.

The fix is on its way: pandoc: remove GHC & haskell deps from closure, 5.2G => 250M by picnoir · Pull Request #264434 · NixOS/nixpkgs · GitHub

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