Bug#435669: Try to split koffice-doc package
Hi,
Just happened to see this one as it went past my full and largely unread
kde/qt inbox...
> Thank you for your answer. But is koffice HTML documentation (as provided by
> koffice-doc-html) still integrated with KHelpCenter ? If true, this bug can
> be closed for me.
I was the one who added koffice-doc-html back in 2001. The situation
was (and possibly still is) this:
- If you are a KDE user, you can view help for koffice apps in the KDE
help centre. This reads the docbook files directly, and so you don't
need koffice-doc-html at all.
- If you are a GNOME user (or twm or whatever), and you don't have the
full kdebase infrastructure installed (in particular, you don't have
khelpcenter), and you just have kword/kspread/etc installed because
you like them as individual apps, then you cannot view the docbook
help files directly. This is why koffice-doc-html was created -- it
builds HTML files in advance and installs them in a place where
non-KDE users can read them in HTML with their favourite web browsers.
So essentially koffice-doc-html is irrelevant to regular KDE people; it
only exists to help other users who for whatever reason are dipping
their toes in the KDE world.
As an aside, if there are plans to remove koffice-doc-html, I'd suggest
bumping khelpcenter up from a suggests to a recommends. Actually, given
that the installed-size of khelpcenter is smaller than koffice-doc-html,
perhaps this is a good idea? *shrug*
b.
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