Re: pkg/34881 (misc/yelp needs a MESSAGE file added to inform users it needs MAN

["David H. Gutteridge" <dhgutteridge%sympatico.ca@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/34881; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "David H. Gutteridge" <dhgutteridge%sympatico.ca@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/34881 (misc/yelp needs a MESSAGE file added to inform users it 
needs MAN
Date: Sat, 06 Jan 2007 14:13:57 -0500

 >In Gnome's bugzilla, this issue has been fixed in version 2.16.2,
 >and pkgsrc version is also 2.16.2.
 >Still need a MESSAGE file?
 
 Hmm, well the problem hasn't been properly fixed by Gnome in 2.16.2,
 they just prevented Yelp from crashing.  If users want to browse any
 man pages that aren't installed under /usr/share/man, they would need
 to define MANPATH.  So it's not a crash issue anymore, but it could be
 perceived as a configuration issue that MESSAGE files will make note
 of.  Whether this one is significant enough to merit a message is
 debatable, it depends if messages are typically only included to say
 "if you want this to work at all, do this" as opposed to "if you want
 this to [work well | be all-inclusive] do this".  (I don't mean to sound
 facetious here, I honestly don't know what pkgsrc's custom is in this
 regard, if the latter standard was applied, that could be quite a lot
 of work across all the packages...)
 
 Dave