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