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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="Ilya_Shlyakhter"
+ avatar="http://cdn.libravatar.org/avatar/1647044369aa7747829c38b9dcc84df0"
+ subject="building the standalone distribution"
+ date="2020-06-17T14:22:34Z"
+ content="""
+Is there a way to build the standalone distribution from the tarballs posted on Hackage?
+"""]]