On Sat, May 03, 2014 at 01:44:01PM -0400, James Wilson Harshaw IV wrote:
I recently have installed bournal, an encrypted journal program for
Fedora.
Although it installed with its dependencies, when run it said nano is
needed to run.
Whoever maintains this package, please add nano to the dependencies.
Although it gives that message, the man page actually recommends 'vim', and
check out the ~/.bournalrc config file -- there is a setting for EDITOR
which defaults to "nanoeditor". Change that to some other editor, and the
program will run just file.
I expect that this is why the hard dependency was dropped, and I think it's
probably fair to assume that anyone who is hardcore enough to be using a
command-line encrypted journal program can probably deal with that, although
it'd be nice if the error message told you about the config file -- or if
the program just respected the traditional EDITOR (or VISUAL) environment
variable.
Overall, posting to this mailing list is okay, but as Michael Schwendt
points out, it's really better to file a bug, because not all maintainers
can keep up with this list and it's easy to miss things. It's pretty easy to
do at:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=Fedora&version=rawh...
Also, be aware that the program appears to be dead upstream -- the home page
at
http://www.becauseinter.net/bournal/ just gives a 404 error.
--
Matthew Miller -- Fedora Project -- <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org>
"Tepid change for the somewhat better!"