Arch, I presume? That's mostly due to a man-power problem on the side of the Arch Haskell maintainers. Try our pandoc Docker images or use pandoc-bin from AUR for a bloat-less version. https://hub.docker.com/u/pandoc
Considering what pandoc does and how it is used, docker is a massive overkill imho. What pandoc should actually do, is come as a tar ball and be buildable the traditional configure make make install way like all unix tools of a similar fashion do. Haskell, atm, is no language for this.
Hahaha, that's actually some quality and funny trolling. Not bad :D
For everybody interested in alternative installation methods: all pandoc releases are available as statically compiled binaries for Linux, and via installers on macOS and Windows. Any major package managers ship a more-or-less recent version of pandoc. Compiling is as simple as getting the "stack" tool and running `stack install`.
