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Another good reason to have a README is becuase sometimes people |
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want to know more about a program. Without having to install it. |
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If they can learn about the program before they install. They are |
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more aware of how hard/easy the installtion is. |
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Or when your trying to help someone. You don't know what that |
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program does. You read the README. Then you get someidea. Now your |
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in a much better position to help then before. |
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> I think it's a greÁt idea. Unfortunately most discussion till now |
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> was around outputing |
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> the the info to some log and so on. However the suggestion (which I |
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> was going to |
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> make anyway) is much broader. The only pease of information portage |
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> helds about |
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> every package is a short description line. |
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> That's ok, if you know what the package does. Know imagine a |
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> situation when you |
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> do emerge --pretend something and you get a list packages, some of |
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> which you have |
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> no idea about. It would be very useful if you could read a readme |
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> file for them to see |
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> what they are actually doing. |
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> Having a readme would also be very useful in many other cases, when |
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> you want to get |
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> some info on the package, without going to their web site. |
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> On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 16:40:12 +0100 (BST) |
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> "MooktaKiNG" <Mooktakim@×××××××.com> wrote: |
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>> I think it would be better if portage included a README file for |
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>> each ebuild. |
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>> This i belive is very important becuase gentoo is a bit different |
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>> from a normal linux. |
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>> Like when installing a mod_php you run the command: |
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>> ebuild .../mod_php config |
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>> after installtion. |
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>> See when i installed this first i had know idea. |
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>> I know i know. there are some text at the end of the emerge that |
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>> says what you should do. |
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>> But when your doind multiple emerge's one after the other and you |
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>> leave gentoo todo its thing. You don't see the text. |
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>> So if there was a nice README file that explain the 'extra' |
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>> setting |
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>> needed on each dir in portage then it would make things a LOT |
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>> easier |
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>> and would be very helpful. |
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>> If this already exists please ignore this email. |
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> Sergey Kuleshov <svyatogor@g.o> |
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