Re: Fwd: reiser4 non-free?

[Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>]

Martin List-Petersen wrote:

>On Sun, 2004-05-02 at 22:55, Don Armstrong wrote:
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>>>>Furthermore, the list of credits are still included (to my knowledge)
>>>>in /usr/share/doc/resierfsprogs/README.gz.
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>>>oh, well, that is almost as good as putting them on the dark side of
>>>the moon....  a credit read by no one has no meaning.
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>I don't know what you are reading once you've installed a new program on
>your system, but the README, README.Debian and the man-pages are for me
>usually the FIRST place, since it might hold valuable information and
>safe me the trouble, which i may have, if i didn't had read it.
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I never read these (except the man pages) unless the install fails in 
some way (I read the NVIDIA ones many times....), and neither do 99% of 
real users, including 99% of reiserfs users.  As a user, I can handle 
the distro flashing information on my screen as it installs and I can 
read that, or printing credits when I select a particular package for 
the install, and I can handle a tool printing credits when it starts up 
(ala mkreiser4) for me to read, but going through a list of 3000 
packages after the install completes and reading their readmes and 
credits files just ain't gonna happen.

As a developer, I can probably be talked out of anything that makes the 
install slower or more awkward or adds more clicks.  If there is another 
paradigm in place for displaying info about the packages during the 
install (I encourage you to have one), I would most likely be happy to 
conform to that.

>So, if you know somebody (including yourself) that doesn't do it I'm
>really in doubt about the security of your system. There is actually
>useful information in there.
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>/Martin
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>The camel has a single hump;
>The dromedary two;
>Or else the other way around.
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