Re: dselect features request
> From: Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 19 Dec 1997 10:51:29 -0600 [snip] > Try > > $ dpkg --get-selections > foobar > [ move foobar to another machine ] > $ dpkg --set-selections < foobar Yes, but what about standard packages that I have de-selected? 39 root ~ # dpkg -s elm Package: elm Status: purge ok not-installed Priority: standard Section: mail 40 root ~ # dpkg -l elm Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ NameVersionDescription +++-===-==- pn elm (no description available) 41 root ~ # dpkg --get-selections | grep elm 42 root ~ # echo $? 1 -- Jeff Sheinberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: why not mingetty??
Raul Miller writes: > Paul Slootman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This is of course trivial to do by putting a clear screen escape > > sequence at the top of /etc/issue. Make it 25 blank lines if you don't > > want terminal-type dependencies... > > Conceptually, you probably don't want to clear the screen for new serial > connections (makes problem analysis hard -- imagine talking over the > phone to a casual user and asking "What kind of connect message did you > get?"). > > Probably the right thing to do is issue "\027e" at the bottom of the > loop, after the point where a serial line would be dropped. I use agetty. I like it that the screen is not cleared by default. Use the /etc/issue file if you want to muck with the screen. Use your .bash_logout if you want to clear the screen as you logout. If my idea of a useful default is different from yours, then let us each have her way with a configurable file. Don't cripple either of us by hardcoding the "better" default into the .deb file. Thanks, -- Jeff Sheinberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: VI reasons (was Re: Base Set: Suggested additions & removals.)
Manoj Srivastava writes: > Absolute novices unwilling to learn should be lead gently to > the nearest windows box. As I see it, it's not a matter of `learning' but of `using' what is available on the boot disk. My usual editor is emacs. Today I used `ee' for the first time, while installing FreeBSD, it was so easy and pleasant. I can just about limp around with vi. I would be perfectly happy to see any of these editors be made available on the boot disk. The problem is that `ae' is what's available. I just go bananas trying to use it. It just rubs me the wrong way. Perhaps others react to ae in a similar way? Cheers, -- Jeff Sheinberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
