Date: Tue, 26 Sep 1995 16:54:04 -0700 From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) To: gryphon@healer.com Cc: ports@freebsd.org, pds@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with packages, and general third party software. Message-ID: <199509262354.QAA01182@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> In-Reply-To: <199509260102.VAA14193@healer.com> (message from Coranth Gryphon on Mon, 25 Sep 1995 21:02:01 -0400)
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(Moved over from "hackers") * From: Peter da Silva <pds@freefall.freebsd.org> * > One problem with installing things from packages is you don't get any * > convenient pointer to how to configure them. For example, if I hadn't * * That's a problem with the port not containing documentation on its * own configuration. This is absolutely correct. The pkg/DESCR file should describe the steps necessary for setting up the port, unless the man page is really good. Things like sample /etc/services lines is a good thing to have in DESCR. Satoshi
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