[Slackbuilds-users] Updates - 20260509.1

[fourtysixandtwo]

On Sat, May 9, 2026 at 6:04 PM B. Watson <urchlay at slackware.uk> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 9 May 2026, Luveh Keraph wrote:
>
> > I am at a loss here, because of the following:
> > I have three Slackware 15.0 systems. Systems 2 and 3 have no Sphinx packages installed, whereas in system 1 I have
> >
> > sphinx-2.2.11-x86_64-1_SBo
> > sphinxcontrib-applehelp-2.0.0-x86_64-1_SBo
> > sphinxcontrib-devhelp-2.0.0-x86_64-1_SBo
> > sphinxcontrib-htmlhelp-2.1.0-x86_64-1_SBo
> > sphinxcontrib-jsmath-1.0.1-x86_64-1_SBo
> > sphinxcontrib-qthelp-2.0.0-x86_64-1_SBo
> > sphinxcontrib-serializinghtml-2.0.0-x86_64-1_SBo
>
> The sphinxcontrib-* packages are Sphinx extensions, but you don't have
> the core Sphinx installed. That could be what's confusing the build.
> Try 'removepkg sphinxcontrib-*' and see if that un-confuses it?
>
> For some reason, the sphinxcontrib-* builds don't list Sphinx as a
> dependency... not sure why (since they're Sphinx extensions)?_______________________________________________

Other way around...Sphinx depends on them.  But still odd they were
added without Sphinx being installed unless the package list above was
grepped in a case sensitive way?