On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 01:34:00PM -0700, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > dear all, > > there are 3 packages which work, but could be made **much** better, > considering the flack that debian gets as being the 'hard' > distribution. > > for instance, it's absurd to install xfstt and not give the user a > heads up that they should: > > 1. install fonts in /usr/share/fonts/truetop > 2. add (or at least THE USER) a FontPath to XF86Config
/usr/share/doc/xfstt/README.Debian First paragraph. See also man xfstt and man xfs. Most packages put a README in /usr/share/doc/<package> > and god forbid xfstt should come with a startup script placed in > init.d and symlinked to the relevant runlevels. Funny, I got an init script. Maybe it was missing in potato. Doesn't seem likely though. > these things are so simple, and would save the newbie from heartache. > plus, for people who are more experienced with xfstt, like me, it > would be a good reminder of what needs to be done and especially where > debian expects the fonts to go. See FHS (http://www.pathname.com/fhs/). Debian Potato/Woody mostly conform to this. > i'm only picking on xfstt because it was the first package i noticed > that really could be made MUCH better. i would also like to say that > imwheel and netscape are also both deficient. i mean, look at this: > > for d in \ /usr/lib/netscape/base-4/wrapper.d \ > /usr/lib/netscape/$VER/wrapper.d \ > /usr/lib/netscape/$VER/$BIN/wrapper.d ;do for f in $(ls -1 $d | > sort); do . $d/$f done done > > what's up with this? why write a script that makes the user have to > see error messages every time they start up netscape? shouldn't we > all KNOW where wrapper.d is? it's not like this script run on a suse > system. I don't KNOW what you mean... Variables allow programs/scripts to handle variable situations. But yes, that script does kind of bug, since the errors are really just warnings that aren't important. > perhaps the maintainers don't know about stuff like this? my gripes > aren't bug reports; they're just plain common sense. Most of the maintainers are highly competent. Most things are done for a reason. Finding out the reason, well... > how can i find the email addresses of the maintainers of these > packages? dpkg -s <package> -- /bin/sh ~/.signature: Command not found
