Celejar <[email protected]> writes: > Trying to invoke the in-app help fails, with a message suggesting that perhaps > gnucash-docs is not installed. It is, but the problem seems to be that I don't > have yelp installed. gnucash itself does not declare a dependency (even a > suggests) on yelp, although gnucash-docs does. > > Perhaps the dependency should be added, or at least the message should suggest > the possibility of missing yelp, too.
The point is that the latest version of gnucash-docs recommends yelp, without depending on it. The rationale is that gnucash-docs is still usable without yelp, since the package also provides HTML and PDF documentation. So it means that you installed gnucash-docs without following the recommendation of installing yelp. My first reaction is therefore to say that you made a conscious decision about not installing yelp, and that this is not a bug. If you disagree with this view, I see only two solutions: - make gnucash-docs depend on yelp rather than just recommending it, though this is not my preferred way for the reasons exposed above; - modifying the error message along the lines that you suggested. This is probably my preferred option. Making gnucash depend on yelp is not an option, since gnucash-docs is only recommended. Making gnucash recommending yelp in addition to recommending gnucash-docs basically adds nothing, since gnucash-docs already recommends yelp. What are your thoughts on this? -- Sébastien Villemot Researcher in Economics at CEPREMAP & Debian Maintainer http://www.dynare.org/sebastien Phone: +33-1-40-77-49-90 - GPG Key: 4096R/381A7594
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