[Slackbuilds-users] THE.SlackBuild

[B. Watson]

On Sun, 17 Apr 2022, Richard Narron wrote:

> I don't judge information and I do not presume to know what a user might or
> might not be interested in.

Sorry, I do. A user who installs a package isn't going to compile it
manually. Or, if he decides to, he's going to start by extracting the
source (and can find the INSTALL there).

> When I look on my system I find over 500 "INSTALL" documents in the
> /usr/doc directory.

Yes, and most if not all of them, you wouldn't miss them if they
were gone. Just because something is commonly done doesn't mean it
necessarily should be.