[Lazarus] installing chm help

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 11:59:39 +0200
Graeme Geldenhuys <graemeg.lists at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 17 February 2012 11:29, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
> > Any Lazarus release installed the FPC sources too.
> 
> Not under Linux it doesn't. I just checked. The APT repository has a
> "recommended" flag for the fpc-source package, but it is not installed
> by default.
> 
> 
> If Lazarus IDE relies so heavily on the FPC sources, then such
> dependencies should become a "requirement", not "recommended".

Debian policy: Relying heavily is not enough for "required".
Some people do not use the designer.

The help works without sources. The help for sources does
not work without sources. It is planned to implement a search with
ignoring missing units.

Mattias