On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 11:33:54PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > Would you knock it off with the flamebait?
That wasn't flamebait. You may have disagreed with it, it may have be inaccurate or logically wrong, but it wasn't flamebait. > I am not suggesting that anyone > be forced to read any number of README.Debian files, just that it will, > quite naturally, become part of the package installation process with the > help of package management UIs. And I disagree with your suggestion. Can you offer evidence? > Not all README.Debians are alike. Many of them contain information of the > form "here is how Debian's foobar differs from upstream foobar, which you > may be familiar with". As such, it is not "in case of emergency" > instructions, but a README in the traditional sense, to be read _before_ > using the software. I glanced through the README.Debians on my disk. Out of about 15, 5 or 6 would be helpful to read before using the package; 7 or 8 had some information that might be interesting to someone knowledgable about the software; and a couple were worthless (empty or basically repeated the description.) None of them were essential. If I'm in a documentation reading mood, I may as well pick up the README file and other stuff in the /usr/share/doc/foo directory. I don't see the reason to single out the README.Debian file. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org "I don't care if Bill personally has my name and reads my email and laughs at me. In fact, I'd be rather honored." - Joseph_Greg
