On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 01:19:18PM +0200, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > * Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-03-19 20:09]: > > One relatively easy way to deal with that in _user space_ is via > > dpkg-divert(8) and --local diversion: > > Just for the record, I don't call that _user_ space. That's admin area.
The fact of the matter is that blosxom is/was a quick yet useful hack by Rafael on his OS X box. It works on a multi-user system; but barely. Adapting it is work, and one has to wonder whether a bigger system is moire appropriate for the need at hand.At the time, there were few/none free blog systems. Now there are a few... > On the other hand it's admin area anyway to configure blosxom for > multiple user accounts. Though still dpkg-divert should be rarely used > by a system's administrator, its intention were others. > > > Programmatically, and from the _package point of view_, the obvious solution > > is to make these conffiles in /etc and link them back to where blosxom > > expect > > them --- or patch blosxom like we did with the Debian patch for > > /etc/blosxom/blosxom.conf. > > Not only programmatically (what a word ;)), but also from a sane point > of view. This is going to be addressed. <nitpick>And, it's link them > _from_ where blosxom expects them. :)</nitpick> > > > It's not that rapid upstream development will overwrite this > > That's not a point for a clean solution, I wonder why you bring it > up... Because it is a fact that may be relevant to teh redesign issue mentioned above. > > -- there hasn't been any upstream work on blosxom itself in quite some > > time (as opposed to plugins etc where user still contribute, AFAIK). > > Well, there was, but you don't seem to be hanging out on the list. But > blosxom3 isn't really ready yet, unfortunately. Good to know. I have indeed left that list quite some time ago, but glance once in a while. > > Dirk, a former blosxom maintainer > > I can understand why you give up on it, with the current "strange" > setup... It's always easier to leave the fixing to others. *sigh* Once a troll, always a troll. Dirk > So long, > Alfie > -- > "Where do you want to go today? > Somewhere, somewhere you could never take me" > -- Chumbawamba, "Pass It Along" -- Better to have an approximate answer to the right question than a precise answer to the wrong question. -- John Tukey as quoted by John Chambers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
