- To: dean@xxxxxxxxxxx
- Subject: Re: [SLUG] Enlightenment
- From: raster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri Sep 22 08:27:55 2000
- Cc: zort@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, mikel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, slug@xxxxxxxxxxx
- Reply-to: raster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
On 22 Sep, Dean Hamstead scribbled:
-> > this would be the result of bad packaging. the help entry works when
-> > you get E from us. Rememebr distributions - nearly all, have a bad
-> > habit of taking e and "destryoing it" - reducing functionality,
-> > removing bits and resulting in it not working as intended by the
-> > authors. in the case of debian i think they made the help docs a
-> > separate package that does not get installed with enlightenment as a
-> > requires - it's optional - and IMHO that is just plain wrong.
->
->
-> The price you pay for packaged software.
-> If it bugs you alot, email the package maintainers and ask them to tidy
-> it up. I doubt they are deliberately conspiring to make life hard for
-> you
its debian's packaging policy to package like that i believe (ie split
the package up). not sure what its missing - but something is. anyway -
we did discuss it once i believe. not really a concern of mine these
days :)
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