On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 18:12:16 -0000 Noel J. Bergman wrote: > Ubuntu is trying to deliver linux to a larger population of users. A > typical problem throughout the Open Source world is recognizing and > coping with a transition from a small population of computer-skilled > participants able to dig for information to a larger unskilled > population that expects everything to just work. No one outside of the > cognoscenti is going to go digging under /usr/share/doc, unless > explicitly told to look there.
Hum, should we remove /u/s/doc then ;) > Nor should most users look there, given > the nature of the material generally present (changelogs, TODO files, > copyright notices). At best, we'll train users to read man pages. > > In any event, don't worry about removing the package. If you "add a > hint to that file on startup", and to the package description, that > should indicate to most users that the feature won't be present, and > point the rare few (a tiny fraction of a percent) who can handle the > patch to what they have to do. And we can hope that someday either the > kernel support will be mainline, or the daemon won't need it. I think adding a hint to the init script only should be enough. IMHO hdaps is something "advanced" even when the kernel would have the UNLOAD support, as the vanilla kernel has many problems with newer hdaps chips (this is solved by tp-smapi (not in Ubuntu)) and thus hdapsd might not work correctly sometimes. However, I'm trying to get multidisk support for hdapsd and will then upload a version with a louder "RTFM ;-)" in the init script. Regards Evgeni -- hdaps_protect patch to enable disk head parking on thinkpads https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/139881 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
