Re: dpkg.log
On Thu, Dec 31, 1998 at 06:04:15PM -0500, Shaleh wrote:
> Not sure how I feel about the dpkg.log idea. However I would like to see
> packages that out put such as message place something in /usr/doc/<package>
> that restates their important output like:
>
> To use this package you must first make a foo file in bar.
>
> Maybe in README.Debian or SETUP.Debian. Some packages say something and you
> think "ok I will do that", and then 30 hour later when the install is finished
> you have forgotten what it was you needed to do.
That makes since, but the idea behind a central file is so you don't
need to know which packages to go looking at. If it's all in one place,
you can just scan thru it without prior knowledge of what may be there.
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