(CC our team members.)

On Thu, 2022-10-20 at 13:27 +0200, Martin Liška wrote:
> > Ouch.  This will be very painful for Linux From Scratch.  We'll need to
> > add 23 Python modules to build the documentation, while we only have 88
> > packages in total currently...  And we don't want to omit GCC
> > documentation in our system.
> 
> Various other distros will have to face it too. The proper solution is a 
> multi-build
> package (gcc:doc) which can be built later in the dependency chain. Btw. do 
> you also
> provide PDF documentation in your system?

No (texlive is much heavier than Sphinx).  But generally we expect man
pages and info pages.

We can separate man and info into the second-time build in BLFS (we're
already doing this now for Go, Objective C, etc.), but I don't really
like to omit the man and info pages...

> > Could generated man and info pages be provided as a tarball on
> > gcc.gnu.org or ftp.gnu.org?
> 
> Not planning doing that.

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