[sword-devel] Ubuntu bundling modules

Karl Kleinpaste karl at kleinpaste.org
Sun May 11 05:49:18 MST 2008


Peter von Kaehne <refdoc at gmx.net> writes:
> I think we had discussed this a while ago and the discussion went
> inconclusive. Some gthought is was a packaging bug, others thought it
> was useful as it gave the user a fully working system.

I don't recall the previous discussion being inconclusive.  For GS, it
is a certainty that first use will induce the "let me help you get a
Bible" interaction.  (GS' mod.mgr has some special-case handling of the
1st-time user which attempts to make it particularly easy.)

It is definitely a bug to impose dependencies of such a sort.



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