Re: Regarding MESSAGEs during pkg_add installation of meta packages

[Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>]

Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%pkgsrc.org@localhost> writes:

> * On 2025-03-22 at 10:46 GMT, Greg Troxel wrote:
>
>>The key point is:
>>
>>  It should therefore be used only in exceptional circumstances where
>>  lasting negative consequences would result from someone not reading
>>  it.
>
> And even then that would arguably considered a fundamental bug in the
> package.  Many, many users of pkgsrc packages install them via
> configuration management (ansible, salt, whatever), and they won't get
> to see any of these messages _at all_.

I would agree with that.  Earlier, I was attempting to construct text
that would pass consensus.

I'd be happy with just deciding that MESSAGE (now) is something thath
should not exist, and then entirely removing support for it, and
bulk-rming all MESSAGE files, after giving people who think they might
have README.pkgsrc content a chance to move to that.