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[Jonathan Marsden <jmarsden@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 12/23/2011 05:00 PM, David Caro wrote:

> It's just an improvement, a kind of best practice. Usually when a
> common user sees a stack trace, sge thinks that the program has a bug
> and just stops using it, but if she sees a nice message telling her
> that you need to install something, she will, at least, try to
> install the missing package before giving up.


True, but in practice, "common users" of Debian and Ubuntu, and indeed
most Linux distributions these days, install clicompanion and other
software as a package, using a package manager, and so dependency
management is handled for them automatically and does not need to done
manually.  Therefore, such users will never see this kind of issue.
Experts compiling/installing from sources can probably figure out what
the stack trace means.

If you want to patch it, that's fine, but it's rather unlikely to ever
be seen by a "common user".

Jonathan