(Kozhev: Java is not proprietary and its mention is off topic. Please keep flamebait to yourself.)
Mono needs to be mentioned in the man page because the man page is about how the program works, key dependencies and licensing. Given the licensing issues with mono, mention of the dependency is a must. Licensing and technical info belong on the man page. Given all the mono-related bugs,, this is a serious technical issue. And, the licensing concerns in mono are *still* unadressed and *still* highly controversial. If folks want to shoehorn proprietary technology into Linux, fine, that's what the multiverse repository is for. However, some have a legal (if not ethical) requirement to stay clean and avoid such politics, therefore such dependencies need to be identified in more than one place. Further, knowing the dependency on mono means the decision can be made earlier. In order to use f-spot, the following NEW packages would be needed, amounting to 48.5 MB on the HD. That's a lot for one application. Sure one should see the mono libraries in the list below, but the man page is where one usually looks for a licensing and dependency overview: cli-common f-spot libart2.0-cil libflickrnet2.1.5-cil libgconf2.0-cil libglade2.0-cil libglib2.0-cil libgnome-vfs2.0-cil libgnome2.0-cil libgnomecups1.0-1 libgnomeprint2.2-0 libgnomeprint2.2-data libgnomeprintui2.2-0 libgnomeprintui2.2-common libgtk2.0-cil libgtkhtml2.0-cil libgtkhtml3.8-15 libmono-addins-gui0.2-cil libmono-addins0.2-cil libmono-cairo1.0-cil libmono-corlib1.0-cil libmono-corlib2.0-cil libmono-data-tds1.0-cil libmono-data-tds2.0-cil libmono-security1.0-cil libmono-security2.0-cil libmono-sharpzip0.84-cil libmono-sharpzip2.84-cil libmono-sqlite2.0-cil libmono-system-data1.0-cil libmono-system-data2.0-cil libmono-system-web1.0-cil libmono-system-web2.0-cil libmono-system1.0-cil libmono-system2.0-cil libmono0 libmono1.0-cil libmono2.0-cil libndesk-dbus-glib1.0-cil libndesk-dbus1.0-cil librsvg2.0-cil mono-common mono-gac mono-jit mono-runtime 0 upgraded, 45 newly installed, 0 to remove and 25 not upgraded. Need to get 12.3MB of archives. After this operation, 48.5MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? -- f-spot man page missing mono warning https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/191307 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
