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Re: [SLUG] Enlightenment


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.
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->  
->  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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