Re: [PATCH 1/2] MyFirstContribution: clarify asciidoc dependency

> 
> Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> writes:
> 
> > On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 02:21:53PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> >> As this is only moving the existing note around in the
> >> documentation, it is not making things any worse, so I am OK to take
> >> the patch as-is, but if somebody (it is fine if it were done by you,
> >> Emily) can double check "apt-get install asciidoc" on a vanilla box
> >> does bring in what we need, that would be quite good.  FWIW, we
> >> write in our top-level INSTALL file that we require asciidox/xmlto
> >> toolchain (the latter is needed if you format for manpage, i.e. if
> >> you do "git subcmd --help").
> >
> > I was curious myself, and surprised to learn that 'apt-get install
> > asciidoc' installs more than 2GB of dependencies. Yikes. Unsurprisingly,
> > somewhere in those 2GB we manage to fit in everything that seems to
> > matter, since:
> >
> >   $ cat /etc/os-release | grep PRETTY
> >   PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch)"
> >   $ apt-get update && apt-get install asciidoc
> >   $ cd copy-of-git
> >   $ make -C doc
> >
> > ...works just fine.
> 
> OK, that makes me feel even better.