On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 09:50:15AM +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> On 2008/12/12 08:06, Marc Balmer wrote:
> > > 
> > > It's also not mentioned by pkg_info as something of interest.  It
> > > should be, right?
> > 
> > Your are wrong.  When you install CUPS, a message is displayed.
> > That message can be redisplayed at any time using 'pkg_info -M cups'.
> 
> These are too easy to miss at some point after installation.
> What does anyone think about doing something like this?

Blech

The issue is mostly to have less stuff displayed during installation, which
is not yet done, but should be.

If packages show useless messages, then they're bad.

You can always do
pkg_info -M /var/db/pkg/*
to make sure you didn't miss anything.
 

jikes' message is ways too long, btw, and not even right, since *users* will
not see it.

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