Currently installing app-doc/kicad-doc requires the user to install latex and related tools to compile a few pdf/html files. The ebuild should provide a "bin" use flag that would fetch upstream's pre-compiled documentation files instead of locally compiling them. Unfortunately however upstream does not provide pre-compiled bundles post 4.0.0 version, as can be seen at https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-doc/releases. Possible solutions in order of preference: 1) Ask upstream to provide said tarballs (https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-doc/issues/559) 2) Crawl http://docs.kicad-pcb.org/4.0.X`, package up contents into tar.gz and provide files from Gentoo devspace/GitHub/private server.
Upstream has started providing tarballs as per solution 1). app-doc/kicad-doc-bin is coming soon.
https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/9727
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=b9de69c0dc9db81bf1c3c248bae07ca8cdd0bc0c commit b9de69c0dc9db81bf1c3c248bae07ca8cdd0bc0c Author: Zoltan Puskas <zoltan@sinustrom.info> AuthorDate: 2018-07-23 01:35:32 +0000 Commit: Virgil Dupras <vdupras@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2018-09-07 00:55:57 +0000 app-doc/kicad-doc: Bump to 5.0.0, block on kicad-doc-bin, more l10n Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/661350 Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/653278 app-doc/kicad-doc/Manifest | 1 + app-doc/kicad-doc/kicad-doc-4.0.7-r1.ebuild | 48 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ app-doc/kicad-doc/kicad-doc-5.0.0.ebuild | 48 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 3 files changed, 97 insertions(+)
