[Bug 275207] Re: Should suggest when installing a plugin will help the user do what they are trying to do

[Jelmer Vernooij]

** Tags added: check-for-breezy

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Title:
  Should suggest when installing a plugin will help the user do what
  they are trying to do

Status in Bazaar:
  Confirmed
Status in bzr package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  It would be very useful if typing "bzr vis" without having bzr-gtk
  installed resulted in a nice error message saying "please install bzr-
  gtk to activate this functionality". Think about how bash prints
  "please install package `mercurial` to run command `hg`" etc etc.

  I spent a long time today wondering if I just had an old bzr version
  or something. I saw graphviz being pulled in as a dependency to the
  core bzr package so I assumed the graphing functionality would be
  available in plain bzr without the GTK UI.

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