You know, installing ports/packages often gives you random manual configuration advise, like:
===> Installing jdk-1.6.0.03p9 from /usr/ports/packages/amd64/all/ jdk-1.6.0.03p9: ok --- +jdk-1.6.0.03p9 ------------------- You may wish to add /usr/local/jdk-1.6.0/man to /etc/man.conf Use and distribution of this technology is subject to the Java Research License included herein. To use the Java plugin with Seamonkey or Firefox you must create a symbolic link (do not copy or hard link) from /usr/local/jdk-1.6.0/jre/plugin/amd64/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so to your local Mozilla plugins directory, which is found at ~/.mozilla/plugins/ or to the shared Mozilla plugins directory, which is found at /usr/local/lib/mozilla-plugins/ = 1) There should be a way to repeat all these messages for all installed packages. Maybe there already is. 2) Every time one of these is printed, the command that does #1 should be reported, possibly both for the specific packages, and all installed packages, or at least for all installed packages. (Don't make users remember what packages are installed or how to determine which are installed or which had the messages.) 3) "You may wish to add /usr/local/jdk-1.6.0/man to /etc/man.conf" isn't descriptive enough, I think, in that, when I looked into it, I didn't know what edit to make so I gave up. It should give a command. For that matter, so should the others. The Python messages give you actual copy/pastable commands. 3b) Maybe there should be a way to automate that further. But I suppose besides being optional, these things are also somewhat changable by user? I don't know. The Python ones surely could be automatic, without the -f. (ln -sf /usr/local/bin/python26 python or such) - Jay
