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130 Start-Up<br />

4.7 Package <strong>Documentation</strong><br />

If you install a package in your system, a directory /usr/share/doc/packages/<br />

packagename is created. You can find files from the package maintainer as well as<br />

additional information from <strong>SUSE</strong>. Sometimes there are also examples, configuration<br />

files, additional scripts, or other things available. Usually you can find the following<br />

files, but they are not standard and sometimes not all files are available.<br />

AUTHORS<br />

The list <strong>of</strong> the main developers <strong>of</strong> this package and usually their tasks.<br />

BUGS<br />

Known bugs or malfunctions <strong>of</strong> this package. Usually also a link to a Bugzilla Web<br />

page where you can search all bugs.<br />

CHANGES, ChangeLog<br />

Summary <strong>of</strong> changes from version to version. Usually interesting for developers,<br />

because it is very detailed.<br />

COPYING, LICENSE<br />

Licensing information.<br />

FAQ<br />

Question and answers collected from mailing lists or newsgroups.<br />

INSTALL<br />

Procedures for installing this package in your system. Normally you do not need<br />

it, because you have the package installed already.<br />

README, README.*<br />

General information such as how to use it and what you can do with this package.<br />

TODO<br />

Things that are not implemented yet, but probably will be in the future.<br />

MANIFEST<br />

List <strong>of</strong> files with a brief summary.<br />

NEWS<br />

Description <strong>of</strong> what is new in this version.

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