> > If qemu-system-gui package is already installed you can just look at the l > in it, - the list gives a good hint. It should, - I hope anyway - be > enough to read the > description already. At the very least, almost no one looks at READMEs > inside packages, > but some do look at the descriptions, especially before installing something. > Maybe > the description should be improved a bit.
Okay... it sounds like we're approaching agreement here. I _did_ read the package description of qemu-system-gui (before creating this bug) and I'm still not clear what the package is for, or whether I should install it. I have a suspicion that this is an important (for qemu) package, but I'm unclear about how/why. I created this bug to say in essence that I think the documentation of this package needs to be improved. I don't have my heart set on README.Debian as the means of doing it. I would be happy with an improved package description. I would be willing to submit a patch, if/when I understand the package enough that I could compose such documentation. > Let's use another example. qemu-system-arm recommends (or suggests, don't > but let's assume it is Recommends) samba. The reason is that qemu can us > mode to share a directory on the host to the guest system it is running. > samba should carry a README explaining how it is used with qemu-system-arm To follow this example-- I think samba should contain documentation explaining its primary purpose. I suspect it does. If there was a package called something like qemu-system-samba, I would expect that its primary purpose would be something directly related to qemu, and I would hope its documentation would explain how to use it with qemu. > Your question comes from the lack of understanding what qemu itself is > and how to use it. That's for sure! I've never used qemu before. I've used virtualbox and VMWare in the past. > (and this is obvious from the list of files in the package). I've had a lot of people on the internet lately tell me that something I'm confused about is "obvious". Usually it means "if you've used this thing for as many years as I have, it's obvious". > https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/system/invocation.html#hxtool-3 is the > part relevant to > this context - qemu-system-gui provides sdl and gtk *modules* for qemu- > system-* packages Ah, yes! This URL (and the fact that you suggested it) are very informative. Would it be correct to say: This package enables the "gtk" and "sdl" display types used with the "-display" argument of qemu ? If that is accurate, I think a sentence like that would be exactly the kind of addition to the qemu-system-gui documentation that I'm looking for (whether it's the package description, or README.Debian, or some other place)
