Re: Additions to gem2deb
On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 12:44 AM, Per Andersson <avtobiff@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I would like to reach a consensus on libjs-jquery though, which is not
> suggested even though the bundled jquery.js is replaced with a symlink
> to /usr/share/javascript/jquery/jquery.js. This is because libjs-query
> recommends javascript-common which in turn suggests
> apache | lighttpd | http. If I have understood correctly, if suggests are
> configured to install automatically, suggestions would be automatically
> installed. This would install a lot of, probably unwanted, stuff
>
> My proposal for the relation between the generated docs bundled jquery.js
> and libjs-jquery is to neither suggest nor recommend it, leaving it to the
> user to figure it out if they want jquery enabled ruby documentation. The
> motivation is that the pain for all the extra installed stuff is bigger than
> the gain of being suggested to install libjs-jquery.
After further inspection it seems that it will not be possible to view the
source code on the rdoc pages for a specific function if jquery is missing.
For e.g. ruby-wikicloth this is almost the entire use case for the generated
documentation. I imagine that this can be the case for lots of packages.
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Per
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