On Sunday, 5 June 2022 09:40:43 BST Ingo Schwarze wrote: > Of course, that implies that subsequently, "make dist" will inevitably > fail, so it won't help much for a serious developer who wants to do > complete testing of whatever changes they are considering.
The reason to avoid having a dependence on a huge system like tex is not necessarily for the benefit of developers (be they of the serious or flippant variety), it is for users who have been told on the list that their particular issue has been fixed in the latest git and they can build from there. Personally when I run config it always tells me it will not build the X11 parts of groff, which is fine because I never use those features. If it told me that it was only going to build the info version of the groff documentation and not the pdf containing the same information because I did not have tex2dvi available on my system, I would not be too despondent. Cheers Deri