Evolution-1.4 uses gnome-help for its online documentation, but it doesn't have a dependency that pulls in that program. Adding gnome-extra/yelp to RDEPEND would fix this. - olly
sounds reasonable, i'll have a check on a clean build on my dev box and see how it goes. thanks for reporting
okay, i really do think it needs yelp at runtime, here's my evidence (such as it is) after clicking Help -> Contents, in evolution ps ax: 6747 ? S 0:00 gnome-help ghelp:///usr/share/gnome/help/evolution-1. 6758 ? S 0:00 gnome-help ghelp:///usr/share/gnome/help/evolution-1. 6759 ? S 0:00 gnome-help ghelp:///usr/share/gnome/help/evolution-1. 6760 ? R 0:01 /usr/libexec/yelp-db2html /usr/share/gnome/help/evolu 6761 pts/1 R 0:00 ps ax driver@zen evolution-1.4.4 $ qpkg -f /usr/bin/gnome-help gnome-extra/yelp * driver@zen evolution-1.4.4 $ find . -type f | xargs cat | grep gnome-help * es/evolution.sgml: s/gnome-help/ghelp * es/preface.sgml: s/gnome-help/ghelp * C/preface.sgml: gnome-help-browser doesn't understand — which are now included as part of the gnome-help package. #include <libgnome/gnome-help.h> not sure how much of that is necessary. anyway, confirmation on whether to add this please ?
well, it doesn't need it to run, but to check help you of course need the help browser (which is yelp) . So it's a question of wheter you want to add full functionality runtime vs. keeping deps to a bare minimum. I can see the importance of proper help, although i assume not everybody will be happy with the possible extra deps needed for a few help files they don't use. I'd say give it a try in the still ~ 1.4.4 as runtime dep and see if there's negative reactions. Reporter, what do you mean with 'online help' btw ? Yelp only accesses help files on system.
By 'online documentation' I meant integrated/interactive/whatever documentation. The yelp stuff. I realise that evolution will still function okay without yelp installed, but I think that having a broken help system is not good.
i've added yelp to evo-1.4.4. it adds an extra 2 packages, libgtkhtml-2.2.x and yelp itself, so i won't say its a big burden.
