The thing is that is not a ipython -> ipython-docs problem, is:
ipython -> ipykernel -> ipython-docs.
Because ipykernel needs ipython as a RUN_DEPENDS and ipython-docs
needs ipykernel as a BUILD_DEPENDS.
It working now because ipykernel is missing the RUN_DEPENDS on ipython.

2018-08-28 16:32 GMT-03:00 Stuart Henderson <[email protected]>:
> On 2018/08/28 16:11, Elias M. Mariani wrote:
>> I think the same, the only issue is that we usually make devel/ipython
>> to have a RUN_DEPENDS=devel/ipython-docs, in this case we can not do
>> that. Probably the docs will get never pulled, so... Is it necessary
>> to leave them there ? Maybe adding https://ipython.readthedocs.io to
>> the DESCR and stop building the docs ?
>>
>> 2018-08-28 16:04 GMT-03:00 Stuart Henderson <[email protected]>:
>> > On 2018/08/28 15:56, Elias M. Mariani wrote:
>> >> Sorry to bother but I would like the opinions of Stuart and Edd on how
>> >> to proceed.
>> >>
>> >> Cheers.
>> >> Elias.
>> >>
>> >> 2018-08-25 15:20 GMT-03:00 Elias M. Mariani <[email protected]>:
>> >> > I detected the following error in the dependencies of this ports:
>> >> >
>> >> > devel/ipython has a dependency on devel/py-ipykernel, but is only used
>> >> > to build the docs.
>> >> > https://github.com/ipython/ipython/blob/5.8.0/docs/autogen_config.py#L6
>> >> >
>> >> > devel/py-ipykernel should have a run dependency on devel/ipython,
>> >> > witch is not specified right now.
>> >> > https://github.com/ipython/ipykernel/blob/4.8.2/setup.py#L84
>> >> >
>> >> > This would create a circular dependency.
>> >> > Of couse, the correct path would be:
>> >> > - build ipython
>> >> > - build ipykernel (depends on ipython)
>> >> > - build ipython-docs (depends on ipython and ipykernel)
>> >> >
>> >> > But I would need to create devel/ipython-docs to be built separately
>> >> > from devel/ipython.
>> >> > Another positive side is that this would make a single doc folder if
>> >> > one needs the python3 and python2 version of ipython.
>> >> >
>> >> > Any issues or recommendations ?
>> >> >
>> >> > Cheers.
>> >> > Elias.
>> >
>> > Splitting off to devel/ipython-docs sounds sane to me.
>> >
>
> These docs seem like something that might possibly be useful on a
> non-internet-connected machine, if it's not too tricky to do then I
> think it makes sense to provide them.
>
> Can you do this with "BUILD_DEPENDS= devel/ipython:build" in an
> ipython-docs port, and then use a custom do-build pointing at this
> directory? That way devel/ipython doesn't need to actually be
> *installed* during ipython-docs build, so you could still list
> ipython-docs as a RUN_DEPENDS.
>
> Running sphinx is actually quite slow for this, so splitting this
> (stop building docs in ipython itself, only build docs once) should
> save time overall.
>

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