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Re: The downside of math::

From Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: The downside of math::
Date 2016-10-21 23:40 +0200
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On Thu, 20 Oct 2016 17:55:21 +0300
Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com> wrote:

> I wonder if we could cook up a nice way to make the math:: usage
> conditional on actually being able to render it.

I think that's the ideal solution.

I got the docs build working again on my Fedora machine, but it threw me
back into this loop for several iterations:

	while (htmldocs build fails)
		see which goddam LaTex file is missing now
		dig around to find which Fedora package provides it
		dnf install YA-texlive-package

This is just the kind of thing that I don't want to impose on anybody
wanting to build the docs; if we get back to a place where almost nobody
can do it again, we'll not have improved much.

LaTeX is a necessary evil for PDF output, it seems, but I really think
that, one way or another, we need to be able to build the other formats
without it.

Thanks,

jon

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The downside of math:: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> - 2016-10-20 01:10 +0200
  Re: The downside of math:: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> - 2016-10-20 02:30 +0200
    Re: The downside of math:: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> - 2016-10-20 02:50 +0200
    Re: The downside of math:: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com> - 2016-10-20 17:00 +0200
      Re: The downside of math:: Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarit.de> - 2016-10-20 17:20 +0200
      Re: The downside of math:: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> - 2016-10-21 23:40 +0200
        Re: The downside of math:: Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarit.de> - 2016-10-23 13:00 +0200
          Re: The downside of math:: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> - 2016-10-24 10:00 +0200
            Re: The downside of math:: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> - 2016-10-24 10:30 +0200
              Re: The downside of math:: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com> - 2016-10-24 11:10 +0200
            Re: The downside of math:: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com> - 2016-10-24 10:30 +0200

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