Zed Pobre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > to: > > If a package has a vitally important piece of information to pass to > the user (such as "don't run me as I am, you must edit the following > configuration files first or you risk your system emitting > badly-formatted messages"), it should display this in the postinst > script and prompt the user to hit return to acknowledge the > message. Copyright messages do not count as vitally important (they > belong in /usr/doc/<package-name>/copyright); neither do instructions > on how to use a program (these should be in on line documentation, > where all the users can see them).
I think that any information worty of displaying in a package's postinst (aside from prompts) should also appear in the package's description. Any counter examples? -- Raul
