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From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: The downside of math::
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2016 17:02:46 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161019170246.339eff9d@lwn.net> (raw)

Hey, Mauro,

So I was a little surprised to find that the htmldocs build now breaks on
one of my machines due to a lack of LaTeX.  A bit of digging turned up
the culprit: commit b7ff94df5628 (pixfmt-007.rst: use Sphinx math::
expressions).  The math:: directive uses LaTeX to process the math markup. 

What this means is that said commit has made LaTeX a dependency for the
htmldocs build.  I'm not convinced that this is a good idea; that's a
massive dependency to add for web builds that, ostensibly, should not
need it.  Certainly we shouldn't add it without discussion...:)

So I'll ask: how important to you is the math extension, and is there any
way we could get you your fancy math in a way that doesn't force
everybody to install the whole LaTeX package set?

Thanks,

jon

             reply	other threads:[~2016-10-19 23:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-19 23:02 Jonathan Corbet [this message]
2016-10-20  0:26 ` The downside of math:: Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2016-10-20  0:48   ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2016-10-20 14:55   ` Jani Nikula
2016-10-20 15:15     ` Markus Heiser
2016-10-21 21:38     ` Jonathan Corbet
2016-10-23 10:58       ` Markus Heiser
2016-10-24  7:52         ` Johannes Berg
2016-10-24  8:22           ` Jani Nikula
2016-10-24  8:26             ` Johannes Berg
2016-10-24  9:06               ` Jani Nikula

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