On 2008/12/14 22:47, Jacob Meuser wrote: > On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 12:04:54PM +0100, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > > On Sun, 14 Dec 2008, Jacob Meuser wrote: > > > > > > > > ok? > > > > Well... does this mean that now we have 3 different places to look for > > info ? > > DESCR, MESSAGE and README.OpenBSD? > > > > It seems even worse now and I think it shouldn't be touched before we > > come up with some kind of consensus over this. > > well, I looked at the MESSAGE files as well as DESCR, and for all but > the foomatic-db-gutenprint, the info in MESSAGE seemed just as > appropriate in DESCR, and didn't make DESCR overly long.
The problem with putting this in DESCR is that people who already know what the software does are unlikely to read it, and historically we haven't put much really useful information there, so people aren't trained to look there. I'd quite like to have MESSAGE separated from updates somehow...what is useful at installation time is rarely useful at update time, and vice-versa.
