Remove known issues from documentation (#29664)

Known issues reports only 2 issues, among the bugs reported on GitHub.
One of the two is also outdated, since the issue has been solved
with the new concretizer. Thus, this commit removes the section.

2 files changed, 0 insertions, 78 deletions

diff --git a/lib/spack/docs/index.rst b/lib/spack/docs/index.rst
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--- a/lib/spack/docs/index.rst
+++ b/lib/spack/docs/index.rst
@@ -56,7 +56,6 @@ or refer to the full manual below.
    basic_usage
    workflows
    Tutorial: Spack 101 <https://spack-tutorial.readthedocs.io>
-   known_issues
 
 .. toctree::
    :maxdepth: 2
diff --git a/lib/spack/docs/known_issues.rst b/lib/spack/docs/known_issues.rst
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index b9c4dd088f..0000000000
--- a/lib/spack/docs/known_issues.rst
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@@ -1,77 +0,0 @@
-.. Copyright 2013-2021 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
-   Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
-
-   SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)
-
-============
-Known Issues
-============
-
-This is a list of known bugs in Spack. It provides ways of getting around these
-problems if you encounter them.
-
----------------------------------------------------
-Variants are not properly forwarded to dependencies
----------------------------------------------------
-
-**Status:** Expected to be fixed by Spack's new concretizer
-
-Sometimes, a variant of a package can also affect how its dependencies are
-built. For example, in order to build MPI support for a package, it may
-require that its dependencies are also built with MPI support. In the
-``package.py``, this looks like:
-
-.. code-block:: python
-
-   depends_on('hdf5~mpi', when='~mpi')
-   depends_on('hdf5+mpi', when='+mpi')
-
-Spack handles this situation properly for *immediate* dependencies, and
-builds ``hdf5`` with the same variant you used for the package that
-depends on it. However, for *indirect* dependencies (dependencies of
-dependencies), Spack does not backtrack up the DAG far enough to handle
-this. Users commonly run into this situation when trying to build R with
-X11 support:
-
-.. code-block:: console
-
-   $ spack install r+X
-   ...
-   ==> Error: Invalid spec: 'cairo@1.14.8%gcc@6.2.1+X arch=linux-fedora25-x86_64 ^bzip2@1.0.6%gcc@6.2.1+shared arch=linux-fedora25-x86_64 ^font-util@1.3.1%gcc@6.2.1 arch=linux-fedora25-x86_64 ^fontconfig@2.12.1%gcc@6.2.1 arch=linux-fedora25-x86_64 ^freetype@2.7.1%gcc@6.2.1 arch=linux-fedora25-x86_64 ^gettext@0.19.8.1%gcc@6.2.1+bzip2+curses+git~libunistring+libxml2+tar+xz arch=linux-fedora25-x86_64 ^glib@2.53.1%gcc@6.2.1~libmount arch=linux-fedora25-x86_64 ^inputproto@2.3.2%gcc@6.2.1 arch=linux-fedora25-x86_64 ^kbproto@1.0.7%gcc@6.2.1 arch=linux-fedora25-x86_64 ^libffi@3.2.1%gcc@6.2.1 arch=linux-fedora25-x86_64 ^libpng@1.6.29%gcc@6.2.1 arch=linux-fedora25-x86_64 ^libpthread-stubs@0.4%gcc@6.2.1 arch=linux-fedora25-x86_64 ^libx11@1.6.5%gcc@6.2.1 arch=linux-fedora25-x86_64 ^libxau@1.0.8%gcc@6.2.1 arch=linux-fedora25-x86_64 ^libxcb@1.12%gcc@6.2.1 arch=linux-fedora25-x86_64 ^libxdmcp@1.1.2%gcc@6.2.1 arch=linux-fedora25-x86_64 ^libxext@1.3.3%gcc@6.2.1 arch=linux-fedora25-x86_64 ^libxml2@2.9.4%gcc@6.2.1~python arch=linux-fedora25-x86_64 ^libxrender@0.9.10%gcc@6.2.1 arch=linux-fedora25-x86_64 ^ncurses@6.0%gcc@6.2.1~symlinks arch=linux-fedora25-x86_64 ^openssl@1.0.2k%gcc@6.2.1 arch=linux-fedora25-x86_64 ^pcre@8.40%gcc@6.2.1+utf arch=linux-fedora25-x86_64 ^pixman@0.34.0%gcc@6.2.1 arch=linux-fedora25-x86_64 ^pkg-config@0.29.2%gcc@6.2.1+internal_glib arch=linux-fedora25-x86_64 ^python@2.7.13%gcc@6.2.1+shared~tk~ucs4 arch=linux-fedora25-x86_64 ^readline@7.0%gcc@6.2.1 arch=linux-fedora25-x86_64 ^renderproto@0.11.1%gcc@6.2.1 arch=linux-fedora25-x86_64 ^sqlite@3.18.0%gcc@6.2.1 arch=linux-fedora25-x86_64 ^tar^util-macros@1.19.1%gcc@6.2.1 arch=linux-fedora25-x86_64 ^xcb-proto@1.12%gcc@6.2.1 arch=linux-fedora25-x86_64 ^xextproto@7.3.0%gcc@6.2.1 arch=linux-fedora25-x86_64 ^xproto@7.0.31%gcc@6.2.1 arch=linux-fedora25-x86_64 ^xtrans@1.3.5%gcc@6.2.1 arch=linux-fedora25-x86_64 ^xz@5.2.3%gcc@6.2.1 arch=linux-fedora25-x86_64 ^zlib@1.2.11%gcc@6.2.1+pic+shared arch=linux-fedora25-x86_64'.
-   Package cairo requires variant ~X, but spec asked for +X
-
-A workaround is to explicitly activate the variants of dependencies as well:
-
-.. code-block:: console
-
-   $ spack install r+X ^cairo+X ^pango+X
-
-See https://github.com/spack/spack/issues/267 and
-https://github.com/spack/spack/issues/2546 for further details.
-
------------------------------------------------
-depends_on cannot handle recursive dependencies
------------------------------------------------
-
-**Status:** Not yet a work in progress
-
-Although ``depends_on`` can handle any aspect of Spack's spec syntax,
-it currently cannot handle recursive dependencies. If the ``^`` sigil
-appears in a ``depends_on`` statement, the concretizer will hang.
-For example, something like:
-
-.. code-block:: python
-
-   depends_on('mfem+cuda ^hypre+cuda', when='+cuda')
-
-
-should be rewritten as:
-
-.. code-block:: python
-
-   depends_on('mfem+cuda', when='+cuda')
-   depends_on('hypre+cuda', when='+cuda')
-
-
-See https://github.com/spack/spack/issues/17660 and
-https://github.com/spack/spack/issues/11160 for more details.