On Thursday 9 September 1999, at 0 h 16, the keyboard of Daniel Barclay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Most of Unix is based on configuring or controlling things with > environment variables. Things (e.g., Sun's JVM) are designed with > that in mind. When there aren't appropriate defaults before the > user has set them (e.g., with an environment variable), forcing > some default probably isn't a good idea. I disagree but, anyway, this is a old point in the Debian Policy and not likely to change. http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch3.html#s3.8 > Maybe each Debian package should have a standard post-installation README > file that: See with the debian-policy people.
