Re: Regarding MESSAGEs during pkg_add installation of meta packages

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

Andrew Randrianasulu <randrianasulu%gmail.com@localhost> writes:

> I hope MESSAGES instructing users to run pre-determinated  commands (like
> making new group for pulseaudio) will be converted to post-install script
> (?) or what exactly supposed to automate this step in pkgsrc.

Vast numbers of packages create a user/group automatically with some
files chowned to that.   I haven't seen a MESSAGE

> Another point ... do you *really* belive everyone has time to read ALL
> documentation for thousands installed packages? "Quick start"-type
> documents exist because we do not have unlimited capacity to read (esp. if
> time is short). Please consider this, too.

pkgsrc is meant to wrap upstream packages, not be a fork.  If an
upstream package's documentation needs a quickstart, they should provide
that.  If you don't have time to understand what a package does and how
you want to configure it, I don't understand why you have it installed.
If a package that is a dependency needs to have manual attention paid to
it, that's probably an upstream bug and should be fixed upstream.  I
encourage you to help fix anything you find troubling in this regard in
the upstream projects.

The point we disagree on more fundamentally is that you seem to think
the content we have in 1000 MESSAGE files is mostly actually useful.  I
see it as mostly noise, a bit of misplaced DESCR, and a bit that belongs
in README.pkgsrc.