We don't include monodoc anymore because it forces us to makedepend on gtk-sharp, which makes the dependency tree for most things very bloated all over the place. We need have something in the near future to split docs from normal packages, as this is an issue for gtk-doc also (we strip gtk-doc, since it's documentation available online and can become quite huge).

but doesnt geckosharp already have gtksharp as dependency ?

Yes, gecko-sharp does, gecko-sharp-2.0 doesn't.

Ah ok, so what do you suggest as soution ?

hmm how about.. we detect at install time if monodoc exists.. if it does.. rebuild docs tree.. else just leave the docs in the /usr/lib/monodoc/sources/ folder ?

PS: monodoc is a nice document browser.. it'd be really sad to see docs being ripped off it :(

The point is that monodoc documentation isn't generated when monodoc is not on the build system.

we once provide docs with index generation on install, which is a bloody mess since it takes for ever for each and every mono package. SO this will have to wait until we have something in pacman for it.

I can try to make mono-tools, which provide the actual browser by the way and has the gtk-sharp depnedency, not monodoc, a makedepends for packages that provide doc sources. It's also the binary that configure is looking for. Friggin' confusing crap! This way the sources get installed. But we will not run an index generator on install because this stalls the pacman update process for several minutes AND make mono-tools a hard dependency which is overkill for Joe user. That has lowest priority though.

I added the makedpends to gecko-sharp-2.0, gtksourceview-sharp-2.0 and gtk-sharp2. If there era others that should be affected please let me know here.

Last call for others ?

dbus-sharp ?

status?

The docs are now included in the package. Please close the bug. Thanks!