[Mageia-dev] [Mageia-discuss] Handbooks - the lot

John Balcaen mikala at mageia.org
Thu Apr 12 18:29:27 CEST 2012


Le 12 avr. 2012 06:38, "Wolfgang Bornath" <molch.b at googlemail.com> a écrit :
>
[...]

> I am strictly opposed to include documentation in a software package,
> in general, not only in the case at hand. Although I spent much time
> for voluntary translation work, I still think it is up to the user if
> he wants/needs the documentation. A prominent example which matches my
> POV is The Gimp.
>
> Reality is that in non-technical issues people in charge decide on the
> basis of their opinion. That's the normal way and the rest has to live
> with it. I have no problem with that.

You should here open a bug report on kde bugzilla then to get attention &
remove documentation from every kde tarball/project (which also means to
deal with the F1 shortcut & have a dynamic help menu)

>
> > For the record luc also fix the installation of wrong handbooks on the
DVD
> > install ( only the suggests one should be installed with the correct
app) &
> > I'll try to fix the last remaining bug pointed by anssi where a handbook
> > could stay available when the related app is removed.
>
> If non-installation of handbooks is not possible then at least make it
> possible to *uninstall* handbooks without having to use 'rpm --nodeps'
> on each and every one.
I don't remember having a package requiring his handbook at all since I
used suggests here especially to fix the live cd problem I pointed earlier.
The idea is to ensure that you'll get kcal handbook removed when kcal
package is removed.
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