Re: GSOC 2025 Project "Improve UI/UX of pkgsrc MESSAGE"

[Leonardo Taccari <leot%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

Greg Troxel writes:
> Solvable Hat <notsolvablehat%gmail.com@localhost> writes:
>
> > Hello Mentor,
> > My name is Yaseen. I am currently studying Bachelors in Computer Science
> > and Engineering.
> >
> > I am interested in this specific project of NetBSD and want to contribute
> > to it : Improve UI/UX of pkgsrc MESSAGE.
> > Can you please give some insights on how to get started.
>
> I should warn you that I think MESSAGE is basically a bug and that 98%
> of current MESSAGEs should be removed.  Please see the pkgsrc guide and
> the description of when MESSAGE is and is not appropriate.
>
> What would be useful is an infrastructure change so that e.g.
> files/README.pkgsrc can be added to the build, installed in $docdir,
> controlled by a variable, instead of having to open-code a postinstall
> target.
>

This project should also apply to the INSTALL/DEINSTALL messages so I
think that the UI/UX problems described above still applies also if we
won't have any MESSAGEs.

In other words - also if we won't have any MESSAGEs - we probably still
have such UI/UX problems when installing/updating/deleting a lot of
packages at the same time.