On August 24, 2020 4:44:37 PM GMT+10:00, Arun Isaac <arunisaac@systemreboot.net> wrote:
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>> I had thought js-mathjax was just the component files too and not
>> truely built from source. Maybe I was wrong. Currently, building this
>> from the true source requires a huge number of js packages and we
>> haven't got a npm importer and full JavaScript bootstrap yet so I
>> wasn't sure what to do.
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>True. js-mathjax is not truly built from source. A true source build
>will properly depend on a huge number of other js packaces. js-mathjax
>only redoes the minification step. In light of this, perhaps we should
>remove js-mathjax from Guix. But, I'm not sure.
>
>> If you like we can ignore this and I can modify calibre to disable
>> mathjax for now since I don't think it works with the old mathjax 2.
>I
>> would like to work on getting more JavaScript in to guix properly
>
>Yes, disabling mathjax for calibre is a good way to go if the
>functionality is not too critical. But, I don't know much about
>calibre. So, someone else should take a call.