Re: policy on binary/package naming convention
On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 09:58:08PM -0500, Michael Gilbert wrote:
> thank you for all of the interesting comments.
>
> what I am getting at is that there should be a simple way for the user
> to discover what he or she just installed. "dpkg -L <package name>",
> which is a good start, gives you information about installed files,
> but the command itself is not easily discoverable (i didn't know about
> it, and i've been a Debian user for 1.5 years).
>
> there also isn't an easy way to discover package documentation. yes,
> you can "$ cat /usr/share/doc/<package name>/README.Debian". again,
> this is not discoverable, and often there isn't good information there
> anyway. plus, i'm lazy, and that's a lot of path typing.
>
> maybe what is needed is an option something like "$ dpkg -B foo" or "$
> dbrief foo", which would produce a brief output something like:
That would be a good idea, except it's not easily discoverable.
Perhaps it's better to add such information to user-level documentation.
Except nobody reads that...
So we're back to square one: hope that people on mailinglists will tell
you when you ask for it. As happened today.
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../ --/ ./ / .--/ ../ -/ ..../ / -../ ./ -.-./ ---/ -../ ../ -./ --./ / --/
-.--/ / .../ ../ --./ -./ .-/ -/ ..-/ .-./ ./ .-.-.-/ / --/ ---/ .-./ .../ ./ /
../ .../ / ---/ ..-/ -/ -../ .-/ -/ ./ -../ / -/ ./ -.-./ ..../ -./ ---/ .-../
---/ --./ -.--/ / .-/ -./ -.--/ .--/ .-/ -.--/ .-.-.-/ / ...-.-/
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