Re: 2 ideas

["Gábor Boskovits" <boskovits@gmail.com>]

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2018-06-10 13:26 GMT+02:00 Thorsten Wilms <t_w_@freenet.de>:

> On 10.06.2018 11:54, Pierre Neidhardt wrote:
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>> Then intention of the Arch post-install script is good (that is,
>> informing the user) but I find the implementation brittle: if the
>> messages are too many or too long, it can be very easy to miss a
>> message.
>>
>> Furthermore, the script cannot be triggered out-of-install, which means
>> that once the shell session is gone, the information is gone.  (It's
>> still in the log but it's not so convenient to read and you must know
>> what you are looking for in advance.)
>>
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> What if each package with such a message would install it as a text-file
> in a specific directory? With a separate mechanism to bring each new
> message file to the user's attention, plus a means of stepping through all
> of them.
>
>
>
I think it might be nice to have something like --show-post-install-doc in
guix package, if we decide to implement this.++


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