On Tue, Jun 28, 2022 at 04:50:37PM -0600, Jerry James wrote:
Back when I started working on packaging the dependencies of odoc, I
had a vision of a tree of nicely cross-referenced documentation for
Fedora OCaml packages. That vision has not come to pass, and probably
never will. To achieve it, we would have to do bootstrap builds of
all packages in the odoc dependency tree, then start the builds over
again with documentation included. That would be a big hassle. Most
of the documentation is online anyway, and OCaml developers will
probably use opam to generate a tree of nicely cross-linked
documentation, so the payoff for doing that extra work would be small.
As a result, I propose that going forward we remove odoc from the
BuildRequires of OCaml packages and consequently stop building the
documentation. Does anybody object?
I made a few of them optional (default off) already, and I don't
object to you removing them entirely if you want.
Rich.
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