> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian Mays) writes: > > > I've learned that too. They also don't read the documentation in > > /usr/share/doc/.
"Thomas Bushnell, BSG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added: > And really, how could they? My *laptop* has 884 packages installed. > If I try "wc /usr/share/doc/*/README.Debian", that alone is: > > 4449 24692 168612 total > To expect me to read and understand that much is crazy. True, but they often don't look to the documentation in /usr/share/doc/<package>, when they experience a problem with a specific package. Thus, it is often tempting to try to find a way to force information on the user, even when its inappropriate to do so. See the recent (and short) thread on the "misuse of debconf notes" in debian-devel for an example. Of course, considering the number of subdirectories in /usr/share/doc already (currently 676 on my labtop), this is a good argument against requiring us to split things off into yet more tiny packages. - Brian
