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Re: Unconditional prompting from dotfile packages



On Thu, Apr 22, 1999 at 01:01:32PM +0200, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
> Give out a message like
> You can byte-compile foo to make it start and run faster. To do this,
> use the command "dotfile-bytecompile foo".
> and simply continue with the installation. Do _not_ wait for a
> keypress.
> Then also place this message in /usr/doc/foo/README.Debian

This is already being done with the modules that require X11 running
for bytecompilation (fvwm[12]).

> The dotfiles are useable without bytecompiling. They are faster when
> you do so, but it is not crucical.

Yes.

> ALternativly, dotfile could give out a message when started with a
> not-bytecompiled message (but make a checkbox "don't ask me again; see 
> README.Debian").

Another thing the new maintainer for the package should have - knowledge
of Tcl.

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