From: Junio C Hamano Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2020 22:48:39 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] MyFirstContribution: clarify asciidoc dependency Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20201016215235.GA2208862@nand.local> Taylor Blau 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. Thanks.