On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 08:31:07PM +0100, Marc Espie wrote: > On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 09:50:15AM +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote: > > On 2008/12/12 08:06, Marc Balmer wrote: > > > > > > > > It's also not mentioned by pkg_info as something of interest. It > > > > should be, right? > > > > > > Your are wrong. When you install CUPS, a message is displayed. > > > That message can be redisplayed at any time using 'pkg_info -M cups'. > > > > These are too easy to miss at some point after installation. > > What does anyone think about doing something like this? > > Blech > > The issue is mostly to have less stuff displayed during installation, which > is not yet done, but should be. > > If packages show useless messages, then they're bad. > > You can always do > pkg_info -M /var/db/pkg/* > to make sure you didn't miss anything. > > > jikes' message is ways too long, btw, and not even right, since *users* will > not see it. >
might it be beter to just display this all by default with pkg_info, and not at all with pkg_add, leaving pkg_add messages truely about packaging issues instead of both packaging issues and operational issues? along with trimming out the useless stuff, of course. just an idea. -- jake...@sdf.lonestar.org SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
