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Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 13:10:32 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Robots binary package
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On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 10:48:29AM -0500, Jonathan Kamens wrote:
>>  Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 09:52:25 -0500
>>  From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
>>  
>>  Your reference doesn't say that _ALL_ packages need a README.
>
>Quoting from <URL:http://cygwin.com/setup.html#package_contents>:
>
>  In your binary package, include a file
>  /usr/doc/Cygwin/foo-vendor-suffix.README containing (at a minimum)
>  the information needed for an end user to recreate the package. This
>  includes CFLAGS settings, configure parameters, etc.

I've never thought about this before but it makes no sense to me to have
rebuild instructions in the binary package.  That's just cluttering up
the disk space for 99% of the people who install the package.

I could see the need for some kind of description about what the package
is, but even there, I think that a man page would suffice.  I agree with
Corinna that there should be no absolute need for a README.

Of course, I would say that because none of my packages have READMEs
either...

cgf