From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754060AbcJSXCu (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Oct 2016 19:02:50 -0400 Received: from tex.lwn.net ([70.33.254.29]:55998 "EHLO vena.lwn.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752104AbcJSXCs (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Oct 2016 19:02:48 -0400 Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2016 17:02:46 -0600 From: Jonathan Corbet To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Cc: LKML , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Subject: The downside of math:: Message-ID: <20161019170246.339eff9d@lwn.net> Organization: LWN.net X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.14.0 (GTK+ 2.24.31; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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