On 04 Sep 2001 15:30:16 +1000, Brian May wrote: > On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 09:56:31PM -0500, Scott M. Dier wrote: > > But, neither was debconf purpoused to becoming documentation for users > > during configuration. Telling users to reference something like > > README.Debian works in all situations except for those in the very > > earliest stages of system installation. > I don't know how to answer a difficult question, because I need to learn > how to use the package first, which requires reading the documentation > first, which has not even been installed yet.
This could be accomplished with an apt-get download-only and a script to grab the README.Debian, if it exists. you could even have an apt-showreadmes that could do this before configuring. (I think less/more is a nicer interface for showing that then the debconf Note setup is) -- Scott Dier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.ringworld.org/ irc://irc.openprojects.net/linuxos
