[gentoo-dev] Readme files for portage (was: A nice idea to improve portage)

[Svyatogor <svyatogor@gentoo.org>]

I think it's a greаt 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" <Mooktakim@hotmail.com> 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.
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