On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 08:48:48PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: >On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 20:35, Max Bowsher wrote: >> Robert Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> But newbies wouldn't know to run it. > >1) Link on the home page.
I don't think "Link on the home page" is ever a serious solution for anything. If it was then 90% of the traffic on this mailing list would cease. - Problems? Hmm the home page says to check the FAQ. Hey! There's my problem. So *that's* how I solve it. - Oops. It's a bug. What's this bugs link? I'll look at that. Ok. So, *that's* how they want me to report a bug. - I need help with XFree86. Hmm. I'd better check the mailing list page to see what the best way to do that is. Aha! There's a separate mailing list! - I wonder if I should send someone private email about this. Hey! I'll bet the home page has something to say on that! Let's see... Ok. No. It's a bad idea. - I wonder why the bushwah package isn't available. Maybe the cygwin developers are mean. Hmm. I'd better check the home page to see if my theory is true. Hey! I could submit the bushwah package *myself*! Neat. - It says that cygpcre.dll isn't available. I apparently need to download that. I need to search for cygwin packages somehow. Hey! There's a link on the cygwin home page! My point here is that it is more helpful to have cygcheck do what it was designed to do -- check for problems on the system. Even if it doesn't actually fix the problems, it should be detecting mount table foulups. I don't see any reason to invent another tool or add more unread words to the web page about this. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
