Re: cannonball: Add a MESSAGE banner post-install with instructions to the place to copy ROMs. Suggested by nia@

[Santhosh Raju <fox%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 6:56 AM Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost> wrote:
>
> Santhosh Raju <fox%NetBSD.org@localhost> writes:
>
> > Module Name:  pkgsrc-wip
> > Committed By: Santhosh Raju <fox%NetBSD.org@localhost>
> > Pushed By:    fox
> > Date:         Sun Jun 9 19:37:53 2019 -0500
> > Changeset:    e90ee10eb5d3156120d465b9d8f9a964b63c6488
> >
> > Added Files:
> >       cannonball/MESSAGE
> >
> > Log Message:
> > cannonball: Add a MESSAGE banner post-install with instructions to the place to copy ROMs. Suggested by nia@
>
> With binary package managers, MESSAGE no longer really works because
> many scroll by.  While we have a lot of them, I think most should go
> away.  Please put this in something like
> ${PREFIX}/share/doc/cannonball/README.foo instead.  This is really just
> 'how to configure this package' which is normal documentation.   If the
> upstream documentation already explains this, there is no need.

I see, I did not know about this.

The message I have put there is available in upstream documentation.

The only information not available is "where" to actually put them
i.e. $XDG_DATA_HOME/cannonball/roms or
$HOME/.local/share/cannonball/roms depending on if the variable is
set.

I can put the content of MESSAGE in a README and make it available in
the documentation folder.

Would there be an easy way to indicate to the end user to refer to the
docs location (after installation), or is the end user expected to
know that after installing the package?

Thanks

Regards
Santhosh