Andrew Benton wrote these words on 04/14/06 10:38 CST:

>  I would have thought 
> that people would install Gnome and get a nice graphical environment 
> before they start worrying about office applications, but there no 
> telling what people will do in practice.

I agree. And it was just recently that Gnumeric was moved from a
GNOME2 installation prefix to /usr. There were some that were
convinced it was wrong to make GNOME2 a requirement for a Gnumeric
installation. Of course, it will work without GNOME, so it was
probably the right thing to do technically.


> The thing is, the command works as it is. If Gnome is installed the 
> command can be copied and pasted and it `just works'. If someone doesn't 
> have ORbit installed then the command fails, but it doesn't really 
> matter because they don't have Yelp installed either.

Well, I suppose we need to place a note before the installation
commands (after building) or in the command explanations section
to modify the command if they don't have ORBit installed.

-- 
Randy

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