From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 6 09:49:39 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA23368 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 6 Jul 1996 09:49:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay-4.mail.demon.net (relay-4.mail.demon.net [158.152.1.108]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA23363 for ; Sat, 6 Jul 1996 09:49:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from post.demon.co.uk ([158.152.1.72]) by relay-4.mail.demon.net id ad11318; 6 Jul 96 16:49 GMT Received: from jraynard.demon.co.uk ([158.152.42.77]) by relay-3.mail.demon.net id aa10635; 6 Jul 96 17:46 +0100 Received: (from fqueries@localhost) by jraynard.demon.co.uk (8.6.12/8.6.12) id NAA01019; Sat, 6 Jul 1996 13:28:24 GMT Date: Sat, 6 Jul 1996 13:28:24 GMT Message-Id: <199607061328.NAA01019@jraynard.demon.co.uk> From: James Raynard To: tcg@ime.net CC: questions@freebsd.org In-reply-to: <31DDEA94.2B74@ime.net> (message from Gary Chrysler on Sat, 06 Jul 1996 00:24:52 -0400) Subject: Re: Ports suggestion Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Something I find very very annoying as a Newbie. > pkg_add a package, It drops ya right back to the prompt without > a clue on what to do next! Yep, this is "the Unix way" - you only get a message if the user needs to be informed about something unusual (a program working correctly is not regarded as unusual under Unix :-) > How about requiring a small message displayed with at least > "see man xxxxx for further details" or "See pkg_info " "man xxxxx" is a standard Unix-ism for finding out how to use something; Unix programs generally assume that the user knows how to use Unix :-) If the package has some information in a different place, then I would certainly agree that there should be a message to that effect, eg "Sample configuration files for the gronkleblaster are in the /usr/local/share/gronkleblaster directory. These need to be customised for your site before attempting to run the gronkleblaster." The "See pkg_info" information should really go in the Handbook entry on packages (has anyone got round to writing one yet?) as it's the same for all packages. -- James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland james@jraynard.demon.co.uk http://www.freebsd.org/~jraynard/