Re: Suggestion: Post-installation README file (Was: The problem of core classes for Java compilers)
On Thursday 9 September 1999, at 0 h 16, the keyboard of Daniel Barclay
<daniel@dsb.smart.net> wrote:
> Most of Unix is based on configuring or controlling things with
> environment variables. Things (e.g., Sun's JVM) are designed with
> that in mind. When there aren't appropriate defaults before the
> user has set them (e.g., with an environment variable), forcing
> some default probably isn't a good idea.
I disagree but, anyway, this is a old point in the Debian Policy and not
likely to change.
http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch3.html#s3.8
> Maybe each Debian package should have a standard post-installation README
> file that:
See with the debian-policy people.
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