linux-kernel - Re: The downside of math::

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Message-ID: <20161021153806.5c9b5d7b@lwn.net>
Date:   Fri, 21 Oct 2016 15:38:06 -0600
From:   Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To:     Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...pensource.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: The downside of math::

On Thu, 20 Oct 2016 17:55:21 +0300
Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@...ux.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