Re: on forming a new Linux Distributionx

1998-04-30 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Thu, Apr 30, 1998 at 06:55:43PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: > > You think nobody is going to try and snatch it then? > > Er.. how do you snatch an expired patent? Reregistration? pgpDXJWQhU0vz.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: The latest XFree86 (3.3.2-4)

1998-04-30 Thread Alexander Shumakovitch
Thanks a lot for a very prompt answer! On Thu, Apr 30, 1998 at 04:39:33PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > Well, firstly, you should not mess with /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/XTerm. > /usr/doc/X11/README.Debian says as much. What is just as effective is > editing /etc/X11/Xresources. There

Re: Why is dosemu in contrib?

1998-04-30 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Thu, Apr 30, 1998 at 10:08:59AM -0700, David Welton wrote: > On Thu, Apr 30, 1998 at 01:05:19PM -0400, Stephen Carpenter wrote: > > > That might not put it in contrib isn't there a "Free" version > > of DOS that someoen other than Micro$loth made? i fsomething like > > that works with DOS

Re: Why is dosemu in contrib?

1998-04-30 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Thu, Apr 30, 1998 at 09:57:11AM -0700, David Welton wrote: > > > dpkg -s dosemu says: > > > > > Package: dosemu > > > Status: install ok installed > > > Priority: extra > > > Section: contrib > > > Installed-Size: 1799 > > > Maintainer: Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Version: 0.66.7-10 >

Re: Intent to package pine-src

1998-04-30 Thread James Troup
Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Retrieval of source from archives is usually done "by hand" but any such > bulk retrieval should be easy to manage with a script. I take the lack of > a script to indicate the current relative lack of need. Anyone is welcome > to prove me wrong by writing

Re: Intent to package pine-src

1998-04-30 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Raul Miller wrote: > Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What we are talking about here is "repackaging" the source tree into a > > .deb file. Very undesirable as it defeats all the good points of the > > current source package system. > > Yet our current source packa

Re: Intent to package pine-src

1998-04-30 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Thu, Apr 30, 1998 at 05:09:18PM -0300, Igor Grobman wrote: > Here is an idea. Why don't we make an installer package for these > source-only packages. It would work the same way as netscape installer, > except it would compile the binary as well as retrieve the source tarball > from the net (o

Re: Intent to package pine-src

1998-04-30 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Thu, Apr 30, 1998 at 02:16:12PM -0400, Stephen Carpenter wrote: > hmm would it satisfy things to make a binary dist of the original files > and of the debainized files...and litterally have it unpack the "real" > pine and then run patch on it with a diff made agains t the debianized > binaries?

Re: Ease of use and configurability

1998-04-30 Thread Branden Robinson
On Fri, May 01, 1998 at 12:57:24AM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > Great, I did it wrong... should go to bed. Anyway, here is the errata: > > > 1) There was a very long discussion on debian-admin (I can send it to you, > > Obviously, this should be debian-admintool. Okay. I was unaware of that

Re: Intent to package pine-src

1998-04-30 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Thu, Apr 30, 1998 at 01:57:28PM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote: > I agree with Ian. The .deb file format is expressly for the distribution > of configured executables (binaries for short). Using this format for > source distribution is simply asking for trouble. > > Maybe we need a tarball that cont

Mnemonic? (possible intent to package...)

1998-04-30 Thread Bear Giles
Would it be worthwhile to package mnemonic, even though it's still in an early alpha state? Mnemonic (http://www.mnemonic.org) is a multithreading modular web browser built heavily on GIMP. The modular design allows you (AFAIK) to determine the tradeoff between your local footprint vs. capabiliti

Re: Conflicts between developers and policy

1998-04-30 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Apr 30, 1998 at 06:36:37PM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote: > On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > While I agree with much of what you say about the need for policy to be > clear, I will continue to urge caution when being dictatorial about > policy. > > I only disagree with Manoj's

Re: Ease of use and configurability

1998-04-30 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Great, I did it wrong... should go to bed. Anyway, here is the errata: > 1) There was a very long discussion on debian-admin (I can send it to you, Obviously, this should be debian-admintool. > 2) The KDE (and Gnome) approach of several little config programs will not > work, Obviously, this

Re: on forming a new Linux Distributionx

1998-04-30 Thread Raul Miller
On Thu, Apr 30, 1998 at 11:32:00AM -0700, Bruce Perens wrote: > > The patent expires in August. Rev. Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You think nobody is going to try and snatch it then? Er.. how do you snatch an expired patent? -- Raul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Intent to package pine-src

1998-04-30 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Thu, Apr 30, 1998 at 05:19:00PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > Ian, why do you still think that qmail-src should not exist? > Are you the only one? > > [ I intent to package pine-src ]. I use qmail-src and I would use pine-src. You are right that at least in hamm this is the best way to do it.

Re: Ease of use and configurability

1998-04-30 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Apr 30, 1998 at 03:13:52PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > Am I the only one who feels that, to a large extent, ease of use *is* a > technical problem? In the end no one can beat this ;) > This is a somewhat major proposal and would be a big piece of architecture > if implemented. Howev

Re: on forming a new Linux Distributionx

1998-04-30 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Thu, Apr 30, 1998 at 11:32:00AM -0700, Bruce Perens wrote: > > For what it's worth, GIF support is doable with free software, just not > > compressed gifs. [gif supports a variety of compression mechanisms, > > including "none".] > > The patent expires in August. You think nobody is going to t

Re: Maybe alpha should be in hamm? (was: Re: Only m68k and i386 in hamm?)

1998-04-30 Thread Yann Dirson
Raul Miller writes: > Is there any reason we couldn't do a delayed debian-hamm-alpha release? I was also thinking about that. As i386 seems to be the "leading arch" (sorry for others, no offense intended), we could IMHO release it first (maybe together with m68k ?), and then release hamm/alpha o

Re: Conflicts between developers and policy

1998-04-30 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Thu, Apr 30, 1998 at 04:06:44AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > Hi, > > >>"Philip" == Philip Hands <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > I may have over reacted to being the lone voice crying in the > > wilderness bit. > > I prefer to keep

Re: on forming a new Linux Distribution

1998-04-30 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Thu, Apr 30, 1998 at 10:44:21AM -0400, Stephen Carpenter wrote: [Debian for the clueless users] > > If there are a group of people interested in doing this still, I am very > > much interested in seeing this done and contributing what I can to the > > project. > > I find this idea interesting

Re: Intent to package pine-src

1998-04-30 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Santiago Vila wrote: > > We do it this way for both DFSG Free as well as for contrib and non-free > > software, so why make an exeption in this case? > > Because we want to make easier the retrieving of *certain* source files. > As easy as it is currently to retrieve binary .

result from "new distribution" argument

1998-04-30 Thread Bruce Perens
Thanks for your mostly-patient discussion. I have decided to work on Linux base system standardization first, using a plan similar to the one Dominik had, but with a lot more organizational and industry support than he got. Dominik should be entertained to hear that. And then I'll work on other di

Re: Intent to package pine-src

1998-04-30 Thread Raul Miller
Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What we are talking about here is "repackaging" the source tree into a > .deb file. Very undesirable as it defeats all the good points of the > current source package system. Yet our current source package system needs work. It doesn't give much of a clue

Re: on forming a new Linux Distribution

1998-04-30 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Thu, Apr 30, 1998 at 04:35:24PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > [1] The KDE team produces a lot of them like kppp, kisdn, kheise etc. > I don't believe that these is the answer as long as Qt is non-free > but it's a way in the right direction. My personal hesitation with Qt has been over

Re: Intent to package pine-src

1998-04-30 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Raul Miller wrote: > Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I agree with Ian. The .deb file format is expressly for the distribution > > of configured executables (binaries for short). Using this format for > > source distribution is simply asking for trouble. > > Um...

Re: Maybe alpha should be in hamm? (was: Re: Only m68k and i386 in hamm?)

1998-04-30 Thread Jesse Goldman
On the subject of bootdisk readiness: I spent a couple days about 2 months ago trying to get Debian onto my alpha pc164lx. Basically, none of the problems I encountered resulted from features in MILO or the bootdisks themselves. They were all due to misinterpretation of the instructions on my part

Re: The latest XFree86 (3.3.2-4)

1998-04-30 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Apr 30, 1998 at 10:17:27PM +0200, Alexander Shumakovitch wrote: > I'm not sure whether I want to spare my bandwidth, but I've installed 3.3.2-4 > version (just because dselect wanted to do this and I was too lazy to > contradict). And now all my xterms have a totally black background. Is it

Re: Improvement ;)

1998-04-30 Thread Shaleh
I say -- Put your code where your mouth is. Loads of people are saying what "ought" to be. Most Linux things exist because someone wanted it and nothing existed to do it. Or what did exist they hated. If you want to see something done -- give code. I find the Debian install a matter of poundin

Improvement ;)

1998-04-30 Thread vaidhy
A couple of thing I noticed in debian that can be improved (for an average user) 1. Add lines in \etc\fstab automatically or with a menu to mount other partitions. 2. Make sure that the color monitors are supported automatically from the installation screen itself. 3. Ease of configuration by

Re: Intent to package pine-src

1998-04-30 Thread Igor Grobman
Here is an idea. Why don't we make an installer package for these source-only packages. It would work the same way as netscape installer, except it would compile the binary as well as retrieve the source tarball from the net (or require user to have a tarball). I believe that will remove the

Re: **Ready your Flame-Throwers**

1998-04-30 Thread Raul Miller
Patrick Ouellette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No doubt every product needs a focus. The rift opened when Bruce > attempted to get the developers to see the value of marketing TO an > audience. Hmm... the toughest part of a development project is analysis -- figuring out what needs to be done. Ma

Re: The latest XFree86 (3.3.2-4)

1998-04-30 Thread Alexander Shumakovitch
> XFree86 3.3.2-4 just got installed into the archive today (I uploaded it > Sunday). > > Unless you have bandwidth to spare, please don't download it without > good reason. With impeccable timing, a CERT bulletin warning of > possible security problems with xlib and xterm was released just after

Ease of use and configurability

1998-04-30 Thread Branden Robinson
Am I the only one who feels that, to a large extent, ease of use *is* a technical problem? This is a somewhat major proposal and would be a big piece of architecture if implemented. However it's something I've been kicking around in my head for months and I haven't yet come up with a good counter

RE: **Ready your Flame-Throwers**

1998-04-30 Thread Patrick Ouellette
I'll bite: > From: Ian Keith Setford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, April 30, 1998 3:09 PM > To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org > Subject: **Ready your Flame-Throwers** > > > > Yo- > > I am subscribed to devel although I am not a developer and since everyone > else has had comments on

Re: **Ready your Flame-Throwers**

1998-04-30 Thread Stephen Carpenter
Unfoprtunatly I don't have a flame thrower... I had a can of lysol and a lighter but I ran out of lighter fluid...so I guess I will just have to reply in a civil manner :) It was definitly a bit refreshing to read your post...definitly a differnt Point of View than is usually seen on here. Even tho

Re: New "Stable Distribution Maintainer"

1998-04-30 Thread Martin Schulze
On Wed, Apr 29, 1998 at 09:03:53PM -0400, Brian White wrote: > This message is to inform everyone that Christian Hudon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > will be taking over the management of the "stable" Debian release. He will > be responsible for deciding which packages are worthy of "stable" and when > to

**Ready your Flame-Throwers**

1998-04-30 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo- I am subscribed to devel although I am not a developer and since everyone else has had comments on Bruce's message so do I. It seems to me that the problem is difference in opinion on the direction of Debian. Unlike most of you (I presume) I have chosen to study business instead of computer

Re: on forming a new Linux Distribution

1998-04-30 Thread Bruce Perens
From: Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > What I read from Bruce here recalls a discussion on linux-kernel where > Linus made the following statement: > Ooh, mommy, mommy, what I have now doesn't work in this extremely > unlikely circumstance, so I'll just throw it away and write > som

Re: on forming a new Linux Distribution

1998-04-30 Thread john
Ean Schuessler wrote: > [..] > Bruce could have followed the great Freeware tradition of building > concensus by putting togethor a team of Debianites dedicated to > creating a newbie-friendly wrapper for the technically excellent > Debian distribution. > [..] Rev. Joseph Carter wrote: > If there

RE: on forming a new Linux Distribution

1998-04-30 Thread Patrick Ouellette
Thanks for taking it as intended - and not the flame bait it might have sounded like. (Rough night last night - but I did put the delete disclaimer in) I've been using hamm for some time, and as long as you check to be sure that application you can't live without exists, it has been fairly stable

Seeking other archs to build packages on

1998-04-30 Thread Shaleh
I am the E/Imlib/Fnlib maintainer. I would like to help or make packages for the other architectures that are able to run them. If you have a machine and can give me access please let me know. BTW is there a list of machines like this somewhere? Might be nice. -- --

Re: Conflicts between developers and policy

1998-04-30 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Apr 30, 1998 at 04:06:44AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Hi, > >>"Philip" == Philip Hands <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I may have over reacted to being the lone voice crying in the > wilderness bit. I prefer to keep away from such discussions until the air cleaned up a bit, b

Re: on forming a new Linux Distribution

1998-04-30 Thread Bruce Perens
> BTW: What is the current state of Dominik's project (FreeLinux (?)). No messages regarding its progress or lack thereof for the past year. > "Real developers" tend to disklike marketing. Don't tell that to my colleauges at Pixar. Or most other commercial firms. As far as I can tell they only d

Re: on forming a new Linux Distributionx

1998-04-30 Thread Bruce Perens
From: Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For what it's worth, GIF support is doable with free software, just not > compressed gifs. [gif supports a variety of compression mechanisms, > including "none".] The patent expires in August. Bruce -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

Re: Debian Source distributions (was Re: Intent to package pine-src)

1998-04-30 Thread Santiago Vila
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Jules Bean wrote: > [ ... ] > Any thoughts? Very nice... but *not for hamm*, as I said in my first mail. I was just talking about *hamm*, the distribution that will not change anymore once it will be released soon. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: Intent to package pine-src

1998-04-30 Thread Raul Miller
Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I agree with Ian. The .deb file format is expressly for the distribution > of configured executables (binaries for short). Using this format for > source distribution is simply asking for trouble. Um... so does this mean we have to retract the kernel-sourc

Re: Intent to package pine-src

1998-04-30 Thread Santiago Vila
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Stephen Carpenter wrote: > hmm would it satisfy things to make a binary dist of the original files and of > the debainized files...and litterally have it unpack the "real" pine and then > run > patch on it with a diff made agains t the debi

Re: Intent to package pine-src

1998-04-30 Thread Santiago Vila
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Dale Scheetz wrote: > I agree with Ian. The .deb file format is expressly for the distribution > of configured executables (binaries for short). Using this format for > source distribution is simply asking for trouble. I don't see any troub

Re: Intent to package pine-src

1998-04-30 Thread Stephen Carpenter
hmm would it satisfy things to make a binary dist of the original files and of the debainized files...and litterally have it unpack the "real" pine and then run patch on it with a diff made agains t the debianized binaries? (I dunno that patch will do binaries...but you get the idea anyway...) yes

Debian Source distributions (was Re: Intent to package pine-src)

1998-04-30 Thread Jules Bean
--On Thu, Apr 30, 1998 1:57 pm -0400 "Dale Scheetz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Keep source in Source Format and use the .deb files for what they were > intended, the distribution of "binary" components. I have little doubt you're right. I know none of the background. But... I think it would b

Re: Why is dosemu in contrib?

1998-04-30 Thread Jules Bean
--On Thu, Apr 30, 1998 12:20 pm -0500 "Jeff Noxon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 30, 1998 at 10:08:59AM -0700, David Welton wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 30, 1998 at 01:05:19PM -0400, Stephen Carpenter wrote: >> >> > That might not put it in contrib isn't there a "Free" version >> > of D

Re: Intent to package pine-src

1998-04-30 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Santiago Vila wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > I have just read Bug #14355, in which Ian Jackson said about qmail-src: > > This package has no reason to exist and should be withdrawn. We > distribute source as .dsc/.diff.gz/.orig.tar.gz. > > Well, this p

Re: Why is dosemu in contrib?

1998-04-30 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Thu, Apr 30, 1998 at 10:08:59AM -0700, David Welton wrote: > On Thu, Apr 30, 1998 at 01:05:19PM -0400, Stephen Carpenter wrote: > > > That might not put it in contrib isn't there a "Free" version > > of DOS that someoen other than Micro$loth made? i fsomething like > > that works with DOS

Re: Why is dosemu in contrib?

1998-04-30 Thread David Welton
On Thu, Apr 30, 1998 at 01:05:19PM -0400, Stephen Carpenter wrote: > That might not put it in contrib isn't there a "Free" version > of DOS that someoen other than Micro$loth made? i fsomething like > that works with DOSemu... Caldera makes one, but it's not Open Source. Ciao, -- David We

Re: on forming a new Linux Distribution

1998-04-30 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Stephen Carpenter wrote: > I dunno...I think ee and ae are both pretty damned easy and mindless :)(ae is > sooo mindless I have noticed it is putting CR in my text documents) As it turns out the DOS CR is coming from slang and is being worked on. Ae's .rc files are currently

Re: on forming a new Linux Distributionx

1998-04-30 Thread David Welton
Here's a random idea... It seems as if we already have several pretty good distributions that continue to improve. Maybe it's time to start looking at some of the next steps in Linux's future, things like Open Source.. Gnome.. coordination with the business world. You (Bruce) have already show

Re: Why is dosemu in contrib?

1998-04-30 Thread Stephen Carpenter
That might not put it in contrib isn't there a "Free" version of DOS that someoen other than Micro$loth made? i fsomething like that works with DOSemu... -Steve David Welton wrote: > On Thu, Apr 30, 1998 at 06:32:07PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > >

Re: Why is dosemu in contrib?

1998-04-30 Thread David Welton
On Thu, Apr 30, 1998 at 06:32:07PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > > dpkg -s dosemu says: > > > Package: dosemu > > Status: install ok installed > > Priority: extra > > Section: contrib > > Installed-Size: 1799 > > Maintainer: Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >

Re: on forming a new Linux Distribution

1998-04-30 Thread Kenneth . Scharf
>If someone has the desire to install an operating system on a computer that is created, >supported, and distributed by volunteers they should expect to have to do some amount of >reading to configure the system to their liking. When someone does the install and >then proceeds to cry because the

Intent to package pine-src

1998-04-30 Thread Santiago Vila
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I have just read Bug #14355, in which Ian Jackson said about qmail-src: This package has no reason to exist and should be withdrawn. We distribute source as .dsc/.diff.gz/.orig.tar.gz. Well, this package exists for two reasons: 1) Because license does not

Re: on forming a new Linux Distribution

1998-04-30 Thread Sven Rudolph
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Perens) writes: > 1. Focus on the User > > I'd like to have developers who program because they like to see > their work in the hands of users, especially _naive_ users. You are searching developers who will put significiant time into making parts of Debian (

Re: on forming a new Linux Distributionx

1998-04-30 Thread Raul Miller
Michael Meskes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - all graphic packaages with GIF support For what it's worth, GIF support is doable with free software, just not compressed gifs. [gif supports a variety of compression mechanisms, including "none".] -- Raul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: debian 2.0

1998-04-30 Thread Raul Miller
James Troup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I never said it was unstable and it isn't. But we haven't used it > before and I don't care how stable it is, we should not and will not > start recompiling core applications with a previously unused (*in > Debian*) library, one month into a freeze. The de

Re: on forming a new Linux Distribution

1998-04-30 Thread Stephen Carpenter
Rev. Joseph Carter wrote: > On Thu, Apr 30, 1998 at 02:33:54AM -0500, Ean Schuessler wrote: > [..] > > Bruce could have followed the great Freeware tradition of building > > concensus by putting togethor a team of Debianites dedicated to > > creating a newbie-friendly wrapper for the technically e

Re: on forming a new Linux Distribution

1998-04-30 Thread Martin Schulze
Hi! What I read from Bruce here recalls a discussion on linux-kernel where Linus made the following statement: Ooh, mommy, mommy, what I have now doesn't work in this extremely unlikely circumstance, so I'll just throw it away and write something jcompletely new. -- Linus

Re: on forming a new Linux Distribution

1998-04-30 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Thu, Apr 30, 1998 at 10:06:00AM -0400, Steve Dunham wrote: > > It might be smart to fork rpm (call it something else) and re-do the > > header fields to be more sensible, then use APT to provide understanding > > This would be bad. Especially since RPM is a cross platform standard: > people ar

Re: on forming a new Linux Distribution

1998-04-30 Thread Steve Dunham
Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > 2 - They seem to lack a well formed index file, I couldn't find any > > rpm index on their ftp site. > Presumably, this could also be addressed by work. [Since it's not > specific to the rpm format, but the rpm site.] There is an index file i

Re: debian 2.0

1998-04-30 Thread James Troup
Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Oh, foo. Integration of pam was dropped as a release goal of 2.0 > > because it is quite simply not tenable if you want to release hamm > > before 1999. You can not simply recompile core applications like > > shadow and net{base,std} with pam and "hope t

Re: on forming a new Linux Distribution

1998-04-30 Thread Steve Dunham
Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 29 Apr 1998, Bruce Perens wrote: > As I see it there are two major problems that preclude using APT with RPM > as it stands, > 1 - They don't actually have package dependencies. They have > dependencies on files - big difference. > 2

Re: on forming a new Linux Distribution

1998-04-30 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Thu, Apr 30, 1998 at 02:33:54AM -0500, Ean Schuessler wrote: [..] > Bruce could have followed the great Freeware tradition of building > concensus by putting togethor a team of Debianites dedicated to > creating a newbie-friendly wrapper for the technically excellent > Debian distribution. [..]

RE: New Linux distribution

1998-04-30 Thread Patrick Ouellette
If you have sensitive skin you may wish to push the delete button now > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, April 30, 1998 8:27 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; debian-devel@lists.debian.org > Subject: New Linux distribution > > > Bruce,

Re: New Linux distribution

1998-04-30 Thread Scott Ellis
On Thu, 30 Apr 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have installed debian 1.3.1 (several times!) at home and have found > that it is NOT easy to install. Many of the utilities are older than > versions supplied with Slackware or Redhat. Examples: Man uses More > instead of Less as a pager (t

RE: netstd tools in the base system (was Re: What to do with /bi n/perl symlink?)

1998-04-30 Thread Carpenter, Dean
Don't forget that there are a lot of firewalls (ANS Interlock in particular) out there that require logging in first. Passive mode won't work. That is, you ftp to the firewall, log in, and finally do a user [EMAIL PROTECTED] That gives you a connection to the remote site which then pro

Re: debian 2.0

1998-04-30 Thread Raul Miller
James Troup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oh, foo. Integration of pam was dropped as a release goal of 2.0 > because it is quite simply not tenable if you want to release hamm > before 1999. You can not simply recompile core applications like > shadow and net{base,std} with pam and "hope they work",

Re: New Linux distribution

1998-04-30 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Apr 30, 1998 at 08:27:29AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > There are several Amateur radio programs currently available for > dos/windows that > *NEED* to be ported to linux. These include contest loggers, satalite > trackers, packet radio, RTTY, and SSTV programs. There is very good S

New Linux distribution

1998-04-30 Thread Kenneth . Scharf
Bruce, I just read your letter to the debian devel list and your name sounded familiar. You were mentioned in a Linux Ham-HowTo as starting a linux distribution for amateur radio. The mentioned web page however does not exist (dns entry not found anyway). I assume that your current letter is a r

Re: Pronouns (was Re: Proposed Constitution)

1998-04-30 Thread Jules Bean
--On Thu, Apr 30, 1998 1:03 pm +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I´m did a little research and nobody here at my university I ask (not > too many people, and not represantive, but FWIW) did know this use > of "they". > > I would really appreciate a list of word explanations, as reading > english

Re: on forming a new Linux Distribution

1998-04-30 Thread Tommi Virtanen
On Wed, Apr 29, 1998 at 08:05:00PM -0700, Bruce Perens wrote: > 5. Open Development. > I am proposing development visible to all, but not a free-for-all. > A core group of limited size to maintain the base system and oversee > the rest probably _is_ necessary. I am not planning to

Re: Pronouns (was Re: Proposed Constitution)

1998-04-30 Thread Marcus . Brinkmann
I´m did a little research and nobody here at my university I ask (not too many people, and not represantive, but FWIW) did know this use of "they". I would really appreciate a list of word explanations, as reading english legal texts is hard. I´m willing to learn new stuff, but I hope that Ian ca

Re: on forming a new Linux Distribution

1998-04-30 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Perens) wrote on 29.04.98 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 1. Focus on the User > > I'd like to have developers who program because they like to see > their work in the hands of users, especially _naive_ users. Well, I must say that while users are nice, naive users

Re: on forming a new Linux Distribution

1998-04-30 Thread Raul Miller
Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1 - They don't actually have package dependencies. They have > dependencies on files - big difference. Perhaps this could be synthesized from a complete list of all files provided by rpm, and a limited scope which prohibits presenting competing

Re: on forming a new Linux Distribution

1998-04-30 Thread Raul Miller
Ean Schuessler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My personal feeling is that every man hour that Debian loses to this > effort is one man hour too many. Er.. Debian is not that kind of effort. Personally, I think every hour of flamage we lose will be paid back in an order of magnitude of better coordi

Re: installation report of hamm 26.4.

1998-04-30 Thread Tommi Virtanen
On Wed, Apr 29, 1998 at 09:22:20PM +0200, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote: > g) cvs is in default ! no ! most people don't use it, and it contains a > server, that has to be configured. this is work, and for people who > don't know cvs its very confuseing. The casual user has no need

Re: Conflicts between developers and policy

1998-04-30 Thread James Troup
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well, it was gfetting frustating, what with being in the middle of > two conversations, one with Dale and James, who are of the opinion > that policy is a guideline, and not a set of rules adopted by the > project Again, please don't misrepresent my

Re: debian 2.0

1998-04-30 Thread James Troup
Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > - pam login doesn't use pam. passwd doesn't use pam. telnet doesn't use it. > > unless most programs are unseing pam, it's useless. Oh, foo. Integration of pam was dropped as a release goal of 2.0 because it is quite simply not tenable if you want

Re: first proposal for a new maintainer policy

1998-04-30 Thread James Troup
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > OK. I give. And, on the principle that if you can't beat 'em, join > 'em, I now agree with Jame Troup and Dale Scheetz and formally > declare that Policy does not govern may packages from this point on, > and shall close any policy related Bugs ASAP.

packaged blt8.0-unoff for unstable

1998-04-30 Thread Matthias Klose
blt8.0-unoff is a blt version compatible with tk8.0 based on blt2.1. from the blt README: There's a story behind these "unofficial" releases of BLT: shortly after George released BLT 2.1 back in April '96, he "disappeared from the scene", i.e. he didn't show up in comp.lang.tcl anymore, and he al

Re: Conflicts between developers and policy

1998-04-30 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Philip" == Philip Hands <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Philip> Manoj, Was my previous mail really that annoying ? If so, I Philip> apologise profusely (I was fairly tired at the time I wrote Philip> it, so may have started to be rather more argumentative that I Philip> meant to be) W

RE: Why is dosemu in contrib?

1998-04-30 Thread Meskes, Michael
I did get my info from my status file. So this might be local problem. Michael -- Dr. Michael Meskes, Project-Manager| topsystem Systemhaus GmbH [EMAIL PROTECTED]| Europark A2, Adenauerstr. 20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 52146 Wuerselen Go SF49ers! Go Rhein Fi

Re: Why is dosemu in contrib?

1998-04-30 Thread Herbert Xu
Joey Hess wrote: > Herbert Xu wrote: > > Not my fault. I can't even find the word contrib in my debian/ directory. > > I'd assume it's a bad override file, then. Talk to Guy. FWIW, the Packages file and master contains the right info. So I suspect a bad mirror is to blame here. -- Debian GNU/

Re: intent to take mawk and gawk

1998-04-30 Thread Santiago Vila
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi. Just to make things clearer: If Chris asked you to maintain mawk and gawk for him, I have no objections. I was just a little bit annoyed because I already asked Chris the maintenance of gawk several months ago (at that time I agreed with him to do a non-mai

Re: Why is dosemu in contrib?

1998-04-30 Thread Joey Hess
Herbert Xu wrote: > Not my fault. I can't even find the word contrib in my debian/ directory. I'd assume it's a bad override file, then. Talk to Guy. -- see shy jo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why is dosemu in contrib?

1998-04-30 Thread Herbert Xu
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > dpkg -s dosemu says: > Package: dosemu > Status: install ok installed > Priority: extra > Section: contrib > Installed-Size: 1799 > Maintainer: Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Version: 0.66.7-10 > Depends: libc6, slang0.99.38, xlib6g (>= 3.3-5) > ... N

Re: on forming a new Linux Distribution

1998-04-30 Thread Anthony Fok
On Wed, Apr 29, 1998 at 08:05:00PM -0700, Bruce Perens wrote: > Dear Debian Folks, > > I've been giving serious thought for a while to forming a new Linux > distribution. My reason is to fulfill some goals that currently are > not addressed by Debian or the commercial distributions. I really don'

Re: Conflicts between developers and policy

1998-04-30 Thread Philip Hands
Manoj, Was my previous mail really that annoying ? If so, I apologise profusely (I was fairly tired at the time I wrote it, so may have started to be rather more argumentative that I meant to be) I think we actually hold fairly similar opinions about this subject. Did you ever see my previou

Re: on forming a new Linux Distributionx

1998-04-30 Thread Michael Meskes
Bruce Perens writes: > I think Debian's drifted too far from the mainstream of Linux > to continue to fulfill this purpose. A non-commercial I'm sorry, Bruce, but could you give us some details about this. Where has Debian drifted from the mainstream? > 4. Maintaining the Open Source

Why is dosemu in contrib?

1998-04-30 Thread Michael Meskes
dpkg -s dosemu says: Package: dosemu Status: install ok installed Priority: extra Section: contrib Installed-Size: 1799 Maintainer: Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Version: 0.66.7-10 Depends: libc6, slang0.99.38, xlib6g (>= 3.3-5) ... However, the copyright file says: ... This program is free sof

Re: on forming a new Linux Distribution

1998-04-30 Thread Ean Schuessler
Well, admittedly I am rather suprised at this. Although Bruce's post is so calmly worded that it is difficult to find fault, a "bird's eye" view of his actions produces a scene that really makes me wonder. The most revolting thing to me is that this whole tantrum stems from the fact that Manoj

mkisofs (was: creating hamm cdroms)

1998-04-30 Thread Jens Rosenboom
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andreas Jellinghaus) writes: > my experience with new mkisofs (with joilet supprt) is, that -x doesn't work. > i found a solution : create a new directory as cd root, and copy everything > into that dir useing hardlinks. this doesn't waste a log of disk space, > and makes severel

Re: on forming a new Linux Distribution

1998-04-30 Thread David Welton
On Thu, Apr 30, 1998 at 05:10:54AM +, Rev. Joseph Carter wrote: > On Wed, Apr 29, 1998 at 08:05:00PM -0700, Bruce Perens wrote: > > I've been giving serious thought for a while to forming a new Linux > > distribution. My reason is to fulfill some goals that currently are > > not addressed by De

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