Re: 2 ideas

[Thorsten Wilms]

On 10.06.2018 11:54, Pierre Neidhardt wrote:
> 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.)


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.


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