On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 09:18:39PM -0500, David Starner wrote: > On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 07:46:52PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > Currently, most users probably don't read README.Debian unless they have > > a good reason, so while it's the correct place to put things like this, > > they aren't always seen. In the future, though, package management > > frontends should make it easy to view README.Debian at installation > > time. > > Why? It's not that hard to do "less /usr/share/doc/foo/README.Debian", or > better yet, "cd /usr/share/doc/foo; ls; less whatever". I see no value in > having the README.Debian displayed everytime I upgrade xfree86-common, and > I seriously doubt I would catch anything important and new.
It's not that hard to do this for a single package, but it is a completely different matter to do it by hand for every newly-installed package. This is something that frontends should simplify. In the above text I wrote "at installation time", meaning when a package is initially installed, not "everytime I upgrade". -- - mdz