On Jan 04 2001, Ivan E. Moore II wrote:
> hmmm...why not just put a small notice in the package postinst
> telling the user that he should install kdebase-doc to get the
> documentation or kdebase-dev for the development files...
Well, the -dev and -doc things are more or less common
procedure for Debian...
> I don't want to clutter up the postinst process (even using debconf)
> with things like this that can be easily stated in the README's...
But this *does* make sense (and users should read this indeed
for their most frequently/important/highly regarded packages).
> especially since the -crypto packages are already suggested (tho
> that doesn't mean much now) and will eventually go away.
Oh, they're going away? That *is* a nice surprise. Less
packages, less complexity, less work for packagers, less work
for users etc. :-)
[]s, Roger...
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