Hello, Stefano, I got the following comments to our post-install message for the autodock package.
Andreas Tille wrote: > On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 05:16:46PM +0200, Steffen Moeller wrote: >> in the sake of our group maintenance I want to inform you about a somewhat >> unusual >> post-inst message that I had added to the autodock package, toinform the >> users that >> upstream needs funding to maintain their software. > > I have very mixed feelings about this because: > > - Postinst should not be to noisy. > - It might not help anyway because the information gets lost. > > So I would really love to avoid this even if I understand the reasons of > upstream clearly. Andreas has some good points here: the text just flips through your screen and you don't notice it much - if at all - but for many it is a distraction to the eye that is trained to spot errors in the install process. And since Andreas is constructive fellow, he continued as follows: > What could we do instead. > > 1. Having the file in /usr/share/doc/<package> is fine. > 2. Point to this file in the package description should work even > better than your solution. > 3. Referencing the file in the manpage makes noise as well. he probably meant "less noise" here > 4. We could even add a comment on the tasks page which makes > the problem visible for users who did not even installed > the package. this would be lovely. > Please consider these suggestions instead of this clear misuse > of postinst. Stefano, would you agree to that? We could also add a note to the startup of the application to show that text and optionally show this only upon the first invocation of autodock/autogrid. Best, Steffen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
