[Fedora-packaging] Re: [Bug 203864] Review Request: tripwire - IDS

[Toshio Kuratomi]

On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 22:25 +0200, Till Maas wrote:
> Aloas,
> 
> On Thursday 19 October 2006 21:47, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> 
> > Trying to give post-install instructions to a user via scriptlets is bad
> > habit. Should happen in README %doc files instead.
> 
> I want to propose to send post-install instrutions via mail to the root user 
> additionally, this way one needs not to look into the documentation for every 
> installed package but gets every information collected in his inbox.

Bad idea.  I have 2176 packages installed so potentially, I'd have 2176
emails awaiting me when I install a fresh box.  Once enough packages
start doing this, I won't be wading through my INBOX to find the
information....

$ rpm -ql foo
$ less /usr/share/doc/foo-1.0/README 

would still be my method of finding documentation.

-Toshio
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