[arch-general] Outdated Wicd

2008-08-30 Thread Christian Babeux
Hi, It seems that the version of wicd in extra (version 1.4.1) is outdated and has currently no maintainer. The new version (version 1.5.x) is moved from /usr/lib/wicd to respect FHS and add interesting new features. There is also a svn version in the AUR, but I don't think it is stable enou

Re: [arch-general] /srv/ vs. /home/httpd/html

2008-08-30 Thread Aaron Griffin
On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 9:24 AM, Aaron Schaefer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd guess it's because that is what is recommended by the FHS: > > > http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#SRVDATAFORSERVICESPROVIDEDBYSYSTEM > > I kind of like having it separate, and think it makes sense, even >

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Cleaning up the base group

2008-08-30 Thread Aaron Griffin
On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 1:34 PM, Bernhard Walle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Attila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-08-30 20:12]: >> >> And this works? I even see vi if i run a "crontab -e" which is the reason >> that >> i don't remove it until now. This is not bad because i use anacron and so i >> ha

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Risky business: udev upgrade

2008-08-30 Thread Aaron Griffin
On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 4:47 AM, bardo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 1:45 AM, Aaron Griffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> start_udev is still there because people were jackasses and didn't >> update initscripts when they updated udev or something.. I can't >> remember the

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Cleaning up the base group

2008-08-30 Thread Bernhard Walle
* Attila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-08-30 20:12]: > > And this works? I even see vi if i run a "crontab -e" which is the reason that > i don't remove it until now. This is not bad because i use anacron and so i > have only to fight one time for one line with vi.-) $ VISUAL=nano crontab -e Bernha

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Cleaning up the base group

2008-08-30 Thread Attila
On Samstag, 30. August 2008 17:52 Karolina Lindqvist wrote: > vim is a speciality editor, since you need to know it to use it. emacs is > similar there. Both require you to learn it to do even simple things. And > when installing a system, you need something so that you can edit the files > to get

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Cleaning up the base group

2008-08-30 Thread Ángel Velásquez
Alessio Bolognino ha scritto: On Sat 2008-08-30 17:52, Karolina Lindqvist wrote: lördagen den 30 augusti 2008 skrev Alessio Bolognino: This might end up in a flamwar, but if we have to remove one editor I would vote vor vim and keep nano. [... more nonsense ]

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Cleaning up the base group

2008-08-30 Thread Alessio Bolognino
On Sat 2008-08-30 17:52, Karolina Lindqvist wrote: > lördagen den 30 augusti 2008 skrev Alessio Bolognino: > > > > This might end up in a flamwar, but if we have to remove one editor I > > > would vote vor vim and keep nano. [... more nonsense ] > > > > v > >

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Cleaning up the base group

2008-08-30 Thread Arvid Ephraim Picciani
On Saturday 30 August 2008 17:52:15 Karolina Lindqvist wrote: > Please not vim, since if you don't know vim, you very fast get stuck. I > just installed and tried vim, and first it beeped on any key pressed. Then > somehow it stopped, and I could not exit instead. I tried CTRL-C > CTRL-C, and i

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Cleaning up the base group

2008-08-30 Thread Karolina Lindqvist
lördagen den 30 augusti 2008 skrev Alessio Bolognino: > > This might end up in a flamwar, but if we have to remove one editor I > > would vote vor vim and keep nano. [... more nonsense ] > > v > * > ==> * T

Re: [arch-general] /srv/ vs. /home/httpd/html

2008-08-30 Thread Jon Kristian Nilsen
Ok, thanks for clearing this up. On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 2:24 PM, Aaron Schaefer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > I'd guess it's because that is what is recommended by the FHS: > > > http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#SRVDATAFORSERVICESPROVIDEDBYSYSTEM > > I kind of like having it separate,

Re: [arch-general] /srv/ vs. /home/httpd/html

2008-08-30 Thread Aaron Schaefer
I'd guess it's because that is what is recommended by the FHS: http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#SRVDATAFORSERVICESPROVIDEDBYSYSTEM I kind of like having it separate, and think it makes sense, even though that's not what I've always been used to. It's definitely a more consistent an

Re: [arch-general] /srv/ vs. /home/httpd/html

2008-08-30 Thread Daenyth Blank
It's for FHS compliance mostly. It was discussed on the arch-dev-public ml some time ago. Your apache config still points to /home, so it shouldn't actually matter. It's just a default.

[arch-general] /srv/ vs. /home/httpd/html

2008-08-30 Thread Jon Kristian Nilsen
I know this change has been running for some time now, but out of curiousity i'd like to know why it's been descided to put phpmyadmin/apache stuff in a new root folder called /srv/ instead of /home/* Isn't this a very personal setup compared to having this in the already existing /home/ folder? An

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Risky business: udev upgrade

2008-08-30 Thread bardo
On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 1:45 AM, Aaron Griffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > start_udev is still there because people were jackasses and didn't > update initscripts when they updated udev or something.. I can't > remember the issue, but it was people being foolish and expecting > their systems t