Re: [docs] [PATCH v4 1/3] use a venv for installing packages with pip

["Antonin Godard" <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>]

Hi,

On Tue Feb 24, 2026 at 2:55 PM CET, Quentin Schulz wrote:
> Hi Antonin,
>
> On 2/24/26 1:52 PM, Quentin Schulz via lists.yoctoproject.org wrote:
>> Hi Antonin,
>> 
>> On 2/24/26 9:28 AM, Antonin Godard wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On Mon Feb 23, 2026 at 6:33 PM CET, Quentin Schulz wrote:
>>>> Hi Antonin,
>>>>
>>>> On 2/18/26 9:18 AM, Antonin Godard wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon Feb 16, 2026 at 12:26 PM CET, Quentin Schulz via 
>>>>> lists.yoctoproject.org wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>> So... I'll be working on fixing sphinxcontrib-svg2pdfconverter and 
>> hopefully we don't have to wait too long for a v2.0.1 (or whatever the 
>> next version will be). This means we'll be able to use --system-site- 
>> packages again, which I think is neat.
>> 
>
> See 
> https://github.com/missinglinkelectronics/sphinxcontrib-svg2pdfconverter/pull/34
>
> Do we want to wait for this to be merged before having a look at this 
> series again? This prevents us from using --system-site-packages, but we 
> could decide to not have it and force all Python packages for building 
> the docs to be taken only from the venv (which is what happens when 
> --system-site-packages is *NOT* passed to venv at creation time).
>
> What do you think?

Let's go for python3 -m sphinx in the Makefile and no --system-site-packages
package option for the time being, and improve later if we can.

Thanks for taking the time to dig!
Antonin