Re: PLEASE: standard package README file/orientation
On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 12:55:25PM -0700, Chris Waters wrote:
> silly. I venture to guess that 80% of all packages have a binary that
> matches the package name, and don't need *any* (re)configuration. And
> of the remainder, most do have adequate documentation already.
I haven't checked recently, but last time I checked on a system with
about 800 packages installed, only about 30 needed manual configuration.
Over 95% worked "good enough" without tweaking. I've cited these figures
a number of times to some friends who complained about the "large" number
of packages they had to configure - to put things into perspective.
They were impressed. For those (relatively) few packages that had to
be configured by hand, dpkg -L was good enough to find the config files
and the docs.
Maybe just a reference to dpkg --listfiles or
/var/lib/dpkg/info/<pkgname>.{list|conffiles} in the Installation
Instructions would be good to get new users started.
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Steve Bowman <sbowman@frostwork.net> (preferred)
Buckeye, AZ <sbowman@goodnet.com> <bowmanc@acm.org>
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