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Re: MESSAGE considered harmful



On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 04:34:31PM +0000, David Brownlee wrote:
> 3) I'm looking for useful information to give me a headstart on
> using/configuring, possibly specific to my platform
> 
> I'd actually be inclined to reclassify MESSAGE as type '3)', and do
> not show it by default on install. Its available from pkg_info.

But if that's the information we want to offer, why not put it in a
default location, e.g. share/doc/${PKGNAME}/README.pkgsrc, instead, so
everyone knows where to look for it and it's not just lost in the
noise during installation?
 Thomas


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