Patrice Dumas wrote:
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 12:01:09PM -0800, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> Oops... I found the mailing list thread and there was a conclusion.
> Packages should not require yelp. Instead, packages that fail silently
That was not my conclusion. My conclusion was that it was up to the
packager.
Well...
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2007-June/msg01522.html
Maybe there isn't a general case conclusion to draw but it sounds like
treating help as an optional feature is what was decided for at least
the desktop-team's subset of packages. We didn't generate any
Guidelines out of that discussion so the package probably isn't going to
raise any flags at review time.
This doesn't change that your conclusion holds:
> So it seems like filesystem owning /usr/share/gnome/help would be the
> best so that we don't need to have every package own /usr/share/gnome/help.
<nod>
-Toshio