From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26290 invoked by uid 1002); 11 Jun 2003 09:34:32 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 11284 invoked from network); 11 Jun 2003 09:34:31 -0000 Message-ID: <1109.10.0.0.1.1055327822.squirrel@mooktaking.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <20030611115214.4b3e2552.svyatogor@gentoo.org> References: <3EE5EA76.7090805@komcept.com><34221.10.0.0.1.1055259612.squirrel@mook taking.homeip.net> <20030611115214.4b3e2552.svyatogor@gentoo.org> Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 11:37:02 +0100 (BST) From: "MooktaKiNG" To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-To: Mooktakim@hotmail.com User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Readme files for portage (was: A nice idea to improve portage) X-Archives-Salt: befd2c2f-14eb-4754-8daf-291537efb69c X-Archives-Hash: 1471fb0344776a6d9edb5abefc247f8e Another good reason to have a README is becuase sometimes people want to know more about a program. Without having to install it. If they can learn about the program before they install. They are more aware of how hard/easy the installtion is. Or when your trying to help someone. You don't know what that program does. You read the README. Then you get someidea. Now your in a much better position to help then before. > I think it's a greÁt idea. Unfortunately most discussion till now > was around outputing > the the info to some log and so on. However the suggestion (which I > was going to > make anyway) is much broader. The only pease of information portage > helds about > every package is a short description line. > > That's ok, if you know what the package does. Know imagine a > situation when you > do emerge --pretend something and you get a list packages, some of > which you have > no idea about. It would be very useful if you could read a readme > file for them to see > what they are actually doing. > > Having a readme would also be very useful in many other cases, when > you want to get > some info on the package, without going to their web site. > > On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 16:40:12 +0100 (BST) > "MooktaKiNG" wrote: > >> I think it would be better if portage included a README file for >> each ebuild. >> >> This i belive is very important becuase gentoo is a bit different >> from a normal linux. >> >> Like when installing a mod_php you run the command: >> >> ebuild .../mod_php config >> >> after installtion. >> >> See when i installed this first i had know idea. >> >> I know i know. there are some text at the end of the emerge that >> says what you should do. >> >> But when your doind multiple emerge's one after the other and you >> leave gentoo todo its thing. You don't see the text. >> >> So if there was a nice README file that explain the 'extra' >> setting >> needed on each dir in portage then it would make things a LOT >> easier >> and would be very helpful. >> >> If this already exists please ignore this email. >> >> ------------------------------------------------- >> Please wait while you are redirected to my signature...... >> >> -- >> gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list >> >> > > > -- > Sergey Kuleshov > Let the Force be with us! > > -- > gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list > > ------------------------------------------------- Please wait while you are redirected to my signature...... -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list