readability of post messages

Paweł Sakowski saq at pld-linux.org
Fri Nov 26 23:48:39 CET 2004


On Fri, 2004-11-26 at 22:47 +0200, Elan Ruusamäe wrote:
> maildrop.spec:
> 
> %post
> if [ "$1" = "1" ]; then
> echo
> echo Please read README.pld file
> echo
> fi
> 
> it is very confusing and unclear *which* readme to read, if you're doing 
> massive package installation.

There are many other disadvantages of displaying so-called banner
messages in %post{,un} (discussed many times in pld-devel-pl). Paweł
Żurowski's recent RPM modifications are an intent to resolve this
problem.

-- 
Paweł Sakowski <saq at pld-linux.org>
PLD Linux Distribution





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