severity 645773 minor tags 645773 + confirmed thanks Celejar <[email protected]> writes:
> On Tue, 18 Oct 2011 16:32:57 +0200 > Sébastien Villemot <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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; > > I agree wholly. > >> - modifying the error message along the lines that you suggested. This >> is probably my preferred option. > > It would seem that this can't hurt. Actually this option is a bit complicated, because it would mean that we need to also update the translations of the message, which is not so easy. >> 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. > > Well, the reason I though that it might help is for people in my > situation, who may not be automatically installing recommends, but may > look them up when they have a problem. In this case, looking at gnucash > itself shows that all (relevant) recommends are installed, and the user > may not realize that the problem is a second level recommends. Ok now I understand better the motivation for this bug report. I think it therefore makes sense to make gnucash recommend yelp. I intend to do that in the next upload unless someone objects. Thanks for your contribution, -- 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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