On 10:26 Sat 22 Dec , Pacho Ramos wrote: > Hello > > After seeing: > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=440214 > > Looking to a lot of its blockers shows that we are using "elog" messages > for informing people about configuration (like pointing people to > external links to get proper way of configuring things, tell them to add > to some system groups...). I thought that maybe this kind of information > could be simply included in a canonical file under /usr/share/doc/ > package dir called, for example, CONFIGURATION or SETUP. We would them > point people (now with a news item, for the long term provably a note to > handbook to newcomers would be nice) to that file to configure their > setups. The main advantages I see: > - We will flood less summary.log ;) > - The information to configure the package is always present while > package is installed, now, if we remove merge produced logs, people will > need to reemerge the package or read directly the ebuild > > What do you think?
Bikeshedding ... would go with README.gentoo, because people are already used to looking for README files. Every time we can eliminate Gentoo-specific weirdness, we should. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Council Member / Sr. Developer, Gentoo Linux <http://dberkholz.com> Analyst, RedMonk <http://redmonk.com/dberkholz/>
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