On Mar 15, 2005, at 12:30 PM, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:

> In message <47ef88c6e3118962392b7c96ad4e4e0b@pobox.com>, Soren 
> Jacobsen writes:
>> On Mar 15, 2005, at 12:03 PM, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
>>
>>> In message <20050315195251.GA986@hanele.ics.muni.cz>, Jachym Holecek
>>> writes:
>>>>>>> How do other folks deal with such issues?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Always check for important messages _after_ you've installed a
>>>>>> package,
>>>>>> not during the install:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> $ /usr/sbin/pkg_info -D firefox-gtk2
>>>>>
>>>>> That doesn't work very well for dependent packages installed
>>>>> automatically -- they've long-since scrolled by.
>>>>
>>>> Using PKGSRC_MESSAGE_RECIPIENTS might help.
>>
>> Yep.  I proposed, maybe a year ago (or longer?) to set it to root by
>> default.  There was resistance, though.
>>
>
> Is it honored by all packages?  I sometimes get such email when doing
> installations, but not always.

It's honored by all packages that use the MESSAGE mechanism.  If you 
find a package that does something else crazy like echo stuff in 
post-install, please file a PR.  Can you give an example of a package 
that you didn't receive email for?