On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 09:58:08PM -0500, Michael Gilbert wrote: > thank you for all of the interesting comments. > > what I am getting at is that there should be a simple way for the user > to discover what he or she just installed. "dpkg -L <package name>", > which is a good start, gives you information about installed files, > but the command itself is not easily discoverable (i didn't know about > it, and i've been a Debian user for 1.5 years). > > there also isn't an easy way to discover package documentation. yes, > you can "$ cat /usr/share/doc/<package name>/README.Debian". again, > this is not discoverable, and often there isn't good information there > anyway. plus, i'm lazy, and that's a lot of path typing. > > maybe what is needed is an option something like "$ dpkg -B foo" or "$ > dbrief foo", which would produce a brief output something like:
That would be a good idea, except it's not easily discoverable. Perhaps it's better to add such information to user-level documentation. Except nobody reads that... So we're back to square one: hope that people on mailinglists will tell you when you ask for it. As happened today. -- .../ -/ ---/ .--./ / .--/ .-/ .../ -/ ../ -./ --./ / -.--/ ---/ ..-/ .-./ / -/ ../ --/ ./ / .--/ ../ -/ ..../ / -../ ./ -.-./ ---/ -../ ../ -./ --./ / --/ -.--/ / .../ ../ --./ -./ .-/ -/ ..-/ .-./ ./ .-.-.-/ / --/ ---/ .-./ .../ ./ / ../ .../ / ---/ ..-/ -/ -../ .-/ -/ ./ -../ / -/ ./ -.-./ ..../ -./ ---/ .-../ ---/ --./ -.--/ / .-/ -./ -.--/ .--/ .-/ -.--/ .-.-.-/ / ...-.-/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
