To Require yelp or not to require yelp

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Tue Jun 12 05:09:08 UTC 2007


Bernardo Innocenti (bernie at codewiz.org) said: 
> So, online help is *clearly* an optional desktop feature.  People
> using systems with limited disk space, like the OLPC users, will
> want to remove it.

So, then, every package should package *-help separately,
and if you want to actually have online help, you need to become
superuser and install it?  That's a horrible user experience.

Frankly, it seems all the kvetching here is 'yelp is bloated
because it pulls in firefox'. Which is completely orthogonal
to the packaging of help - if the viewer is a pig, fix the viewer,
don't remove all the apps.

Bill




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