The downside of math::

From	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	The downside of math::
Date	2016-10-20 01:10 +0200
Message-ID	<su89H-7UG-3@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
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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

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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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