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<p>Geany falls back to the online version of the manual if the local version doesn't exist</p>
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<p>If that's the case then I think it would be fine to never make it required, IMO. <code>configure</code> script will already say "checking for rst2html...no" or whatever, and it's shown in the summary at the end of <code>configure</code> as well, so we probably don't need to changes the messages or such.</p>

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