On October 30, 2007, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 18:14 -0600, Gordon Haverland wrote: > > Is there some reason why I need to keep a Gnome browser > > (yelp) on my system, just to be able to make use of Gnucash? > > Can't a person get help/access to documentation some other > > way. > > It's the standard help browser for gnome programs.
It would be nice if there were options. If the help files are HTML, there are many browsers. If the help files were PDF, there are many PDF viewers. Is there some reason why the help files need to be tied to the presence of a standard gnome browser only? > > I am fed up with De Icaza, and want to remove as much Gnome > > stuff from my system as is possible. Some things like gdm, > > libxml and gnucash I would like to keep. But the only reason > > I have yelp, is because of a dependency on gnucash-docs. > > I'm not interested in making changes just because you dislike > someone. Debian as an organization can be really picky about things. Firefox immediately springs to mind. De Icaza has been slightly annoying for a long time, but it was (I felt) more or less harmless. His latest stance on OOXML is no longer harmless. That De Icaza has gotten the Gnome Foundation to follow his lead is reason to ditch Gnome as much as is possible. I would hope that Debian eventually assumes a similar stance, as I think this is far worse than a trademark issue over Firefox. But all I can do is act for myself. And for me, if those help files for Gnucash are useful without yelp being present, I would just as soon ditch yelp. Gord -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
