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the URL is a great info to have. However some program have been |
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modified to suite gentoo. and this is the reason why i think there |
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should be a readme. |
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I don't think it too much extra work. |
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If you think about it. It's just a small portion of the time it |
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takes to make the actual ebuild. |
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I do appreciate what people do here, building ebuils and all. |
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I haven't does this yet. Gonna try to make one in the future i hope. |
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> On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 11:37:02AM +0100, MooktaKiNG wrote: |
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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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> I thought that was one of the reasons the source URL shows up in a |
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> search. It's how I've always checked to see what a package does. |
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> README |
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> files, imo, are great in theory but put additional maintenance |
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> strain on |
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> a dev. Just my two euros, |
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> Mike |
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