Re: Bug#119517: pcmcia-cs: cardinfo binary needs to move into a separate package
> brian@debian.org (Brian Mays) writes:
>
> > I've learned that too. They also don't read the documentation in
> > /usr/share/doc/.
"Thomas Bushnell, BSG" <tb@becket.net> added:
> And really, how could they? My *laptop* has 884 packages installed.
> If I try "wc /usr/share/doc/*/README.Debian", that alone is:
>
> 4449 24692 168612 total
> To expect me to read and understand that much is crazy.
True, but they often don't look to the documentation in
/usr/share/doc/<package>, when they experience a problem with a specific
package. Thus, it is often tempting to try to find a way to force
information on the user, even when its inappropriate to do so. See
the recent (and short) thread on the "misuse of debconf notes" in
debian-devel for an example.
Of course, considering the number of subdirectories in /usr/share/doc
already (currently 676 on my labtop), this is a good argument against
requiring us to split things off into yet more tiny packages.
- Brian
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