Re: [arch-general] Announcing pacpak

2016-07-13 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
Hello, On 07/14/2016 12:46 AM, Damjan Georgievski via arch-general wrote: > Ubuntu is doing something similar it seems > https://bregmatter.wordpress.com/2016/07/04/x11-applications-and-unity-8/ > > This is for their non-deb (deb-less?) distro version, they install > debs in containers, > each ge

[arch-general] mandb errors bad symlink or ROFF `.so' request??

2016-07-13 Thread David C. Rankin
All, I have noticed the mandb becoming corrupt several times over the past month. It usually straightens itself out, but this is the 3rd time I've encountered this problem in the past 60 days or so. The symptoms are man being unable to find installed pages, e.g. $ apropos ssh ssh: nothing appro

Re: [arch-general] Announcing pacpak

2016-07-13 Thread David C. Rankin
On 07/13/2016 05:46 PM, Damjan Georgievski via arch-general wrote: > On 10 July 2016 at 11:05, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) > wrote: >> > Hello, >> > >> > A specter is haunting the GNU/Linux ecosystem: the specter of per-user >> > containerization. Software like Flatpak and Snappy promise fully >> >

Re: [arch-general] Announcing pacpak

2016-07-13 Thread Damjan Georgievski via arch-general
On 10 July 2016 at 11:05, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote: > Hello, > > A specter is haunting the GNU/Linux ecosystem: the specter of per-user > containerization. Software like Flatpak and Snappy promise fully > sandboxed GNU/Linux application bundles (instead of merely launching an > application