On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 9:04 PM, Matthew Miller mattdm@fedoraproject.org wrote:
On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 07:59:26PM -0700, Dave Johansen wrote:
Currently, upstream has a release that includes the prebuilt
documentation
and I've been using that but I was hoping to be able to build it as part
of
packaging.
Is there any advantage in doing that? There are several reasons to _not_ do it:
Right now, fmt can only be built from official releases with the documentation and it's happened more than once that the documentation was missing from a release, so I would prefer to be able to build everything from a clean checkout.
- Faster build times.
That's true, but it's not a very big package, so I'm not too concerned.
- Timestamps in docs tend to be one factor against reproducible builds
Isn't this a much bigger issue which solutions/implications beyond this discussion?
- Dragging doc-building stacks into build reqs tends to explode the package set required to build things.
Yes, it is a bit annoying, but once again it's not a very big package, so I'm not too concerned.