bournal needs dependency

[Matthew Miller]

On Sat, May 03, 2014 at 01:44:01PM -0400, James Wilson Harshaw IV wrote:
> I recently have installed bournal, an encrypted journal program for
> Fedora.
> Although it installed with its dependencies, when run it said nano is
> needed to run.
> Whoever maintains this package, please add nano to the dependencies.


Although it gives that message, the man page actually recommends 'vim', and
check out the ~/.bournalrc config file -- there is a setting for EDITOR
which defaults to "nanoeditor". Change that to some other editor, and the
program will run just file.

I expect that this is why the hard dependency was dropped, and I think it's
probably fair to assume that anyone who is hardcore enough to be using a
command-line encrypted journal program can probably deal with that, although
it'd be nice if the error message told you about the config file -- or if
the program just respected the traditional EDITOR (or VISUAL) environment
variable.

Overall, posting to this mailing list is okay, but as Michael Schwendt
points out, it's really better to file a bug, because not all maintainers
can keep up with this list and it's easy to miss things. It's pretty easy to
do at:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=Fedora&version=rawhide&component=bournal

Also, be aware that the program appears to be dead upstream -- the home page
at http://www.becauseinter.net/bournal/ just gives a 404 error.


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