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Re: pkg/30337



jmmv%netbsd.org@localhost writes:
> Synopsis: some gnome apps don't list help viewer as a dependency
>
> State-Changed-From-To: open->analyzed
> State-Changed-By: jmmv%netbsd.org@localhost
> State-Changed-When: Fri, 27 May 2005 16:23:25 +0000
> State-Changed-Why:
> I don't think we should make these (and many other) packages depend on the
> GNOME help viewer, AKA Yelp.  Its dependency tree is not small, and it will
> get bigger if we want to make it work with Gecko instead of gtkhtml.

On the other hand, if you install a package, you generally have an
expectation that it will work, and that includes the help funciton. I
think it is necessary to add the viewer to the dependencies regardless
of how large they are.

Perry



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