Github user robertkowalski commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/couchdb/pull/232#issuecomment-48637964
> If a user is able to build couch from source without docs it means they
are an advanced user and probably know that docs are available online and where
to find them.
Yes, that is exactly my opinion, too. I think if people are building
CouchDB from source we can expect that they have the needed dependencies
installed. And this is well documented, too.
Additionally I think that the problem regarding the missing docs during a
build from source, without the dependencies needed to create them, is a
separate task. In this patch I want to solve the problem that the latest docs
are linked in Fauxton.
Another reason against linking the online docs is that folks behind
firewalls are getting problems with a link to the online docs.
The behavior change introduced in the current patch is the same behavior
that Futon currently has.
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