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. 
 
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.