On Sun, Aug 04, 2013 at 11:05:04AM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2013/08/04 11:46, Landry Breuil wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 04, 2013 at 12:30:10PM +0400, Mike Korbakov wrote: > > > Unfortunately GNOME-3 can't work on VMware and my Asus N55SF laptop, > > > because (/var/log/gdm/:0-greeter.log): > > > "gnome-session-is-accelerated: No hardware 3D support." > > > > This is pretty much covered by gnome's README: > > 'GNOME requires a 3D accelerated display. ' > > > > Use real HW ? > > it would be nice if we can package llvmpipe somehow.. > > > > Given the structure of the /usr/local/share and the number of files in it, > > > I would not be surprised if in the next version after installing the > > > package > > > will receive a link to Google (really you can find the complete answers > > > to all questions in the web). > > > > > > I believe that the end of the installation is a good time to show the > > > package-readme > > > (more suitable occasion I did not come up). > > > In any case, it was after installing user should see key information such > > > as: > > > 1. The package is not operational immediately after installation. > > > 2. The package is unworkable in certain hardware configurations. > > > 3. ?hanges are required in system configuration files. > > > 4. Where to read about security considerations and specific > > > configurations. > > > 5. Other unusual specifics... > > > > All this is covered by: > > > > Look in /usr/local/share/doc/pkg-readmes for extra documentation. > > > > Imagine that we'd display the whole readme or dozens of other messages > > for all packages you've just installed. Would you scroll back through > > all of it ? no. > > > > The output for rc.d scripts is quite nice; we list the names of actual > packages which install a new rc script so the user is able to quickly > spot things they might need to do after running pkg_add. Perhaps it > would be useful to do this for new READMEs too.. > Considering the README names are the FULLPKGNAMEs, I don't think it is of any use to list them. I think what we do right now (pointing users to the pkg-readmes directory when a README is installed) is enough.
-- Antoine
