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Re: "RTFM'ing": readily accessible user documentation?


----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Faylor" <cgf@redhat.com>

> The solution is basically what any twelve year old would provide with
if
> you described problem to them.  And the twelve year old's solution
would
> be the correct one -- setup.exe should produce /usr/info/dir.

And we have a solution - for package creators - in
http://www.cygwin.com/setup.html#package_contents - which states
"If you have any 'info' documention in your package, run install-info as
part of your post-install script"


Thats what got me annoyed. The solution has been discussed, put into
policy and should not affect any newbies ever again.

This is a better solution than setup.exe special casing info files,
because as described here http://www.cygwin.com/setup.html#postinstall
packages can do any special case installation that make install might
do - without requiring users to grab a new setup.exe to get the correct
behaviour.

Rob


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