Oct. 31, 2006
8:17 a.m.
stephen@xemacs.org wrote:
Carl Zwanzig writes:
I mean, how many people that install from RPMs even know that there might be a README file to read, let along to and find it?
This is something that has peeved me for a decade. Installers for commercial software usually offer you the README after installation. Why don't pkgsrc and dpkg and rpm and portage and MacPorts do that?
If rpm asked me if I wanted to read the README every time I installed a package, I'd claw my eyes out. rpm has always worked in a fully automated fashion, i.e. no prompting for EULAs, etc.
"rpm -qld mailman" tells me where all the docs are, thankyouverymuch. ;-)
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