On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 9:04 PM, Matthew Miller <mat...@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. > 1. Faster build times. > That's true, but it's not a very big package, so I'm not too concerned. > 2. Timestamps in docs tend to be one factor against reproducible > builds > Isn't this a much bigger issue which solutions/implications beyond this discussion? > 3. 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.
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