Re: application tool

2022-09-08 Thread Mechtilde Stehmann
Hello Greg you should ask at ubuntu-m...@lists.ubuntu.com Kind regards Mechtilde Am 09.09.22 um 06:07 schrieb Qx: Hello all! I am Greg and I am new on this list. I have two errands: 1)i have coded a tool which I would like to release for ubuntu. Can someone please advice as to how this

Re: application tool

2022-09-08 Thread Richard Laager
On 9/8/22 23:07, Qx wrote: 1)i have coded a tool which I would like to release for ubuntu. Can someone please advice as to how this is correctly done? You sent this to a Debian list. If you want to package the software for Debian (which will then flow downstream into Ubuntu), start with the D

Re: Application

2003-07-03 Thread nordmann
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Re: Application files in $HOME

2003-07-02 Thread Adam Borowski
On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 12:49:10PM +0100, Esteban Manchado Vel?zquez wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 10:57:40PM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > >Now, if one removes or purges, say, KDE to install an unofficial > > version... would (s)he loose all hi

Re: Application files in $HOME

2003-07-02 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Tuesday, Jul 1, 2003, at 07:49 US/Eastern, Esteban Manchado Velázquez wrote: 73 Mbytes? What does sylpheed save in its directory? Sent mail, perhaps? Not sure about sylpheed, but my evolution directory is even bigger. It's all cached IMAP mail. Hmmm, on this Mac, I've got 600MB of cached

Re: Application files in $HOME (reformulated proposal)

2003-07-02 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Em Ter, 2003-07-01 às 08:49, Esteban Manchado Velázquez escreveu: >It would be nice, perhaps, having a tool to do it "by hand", but I don't > think everybody wants it to be done automatically when removing packages. Well, this is the beggining of the proposal, that is: Include into debian pa

Re: Application files in $HOME

2003-07-02 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 12:49:10PM +0100, Esteban Manchado Vel?zquez wrote: > On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 10:57:40PM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > > Anyway, there's email readers (my .sylpheed is 73 MBytes), news > > readers, picture browsers, ... my ~/.sylpheed is bigger than my > > ~/.kde. > >

Re: Application files in $HOME

2003-07-02 Thread Esteban Manchado Velázquez
On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 10:57:40PM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Hi, Mathieu Roy wrote: > > > Gimp and many others software creates dotfiles. Because from the start > > you configure it (cache size, temp dir). > > > Why should I want a per-user configuration option for temp file location? > >

Re: Application files in $HOME

2003-06-30 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Mathieu Roy wrote: > Gimp and many others software creates dotfiles. Because from the start > you configure it (cache size, temp dir). > Why should I want a per-user configuration option for temp file location? > For their size? Apart from web browser cache, what can be so big? > So? Browse

Re: Application files in $HOME

2003-06-29 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Em Sex, 2003-06-27 às 02:14, Adam Majer escreveu: > Then they should't delete anything with .* After all, shoudn't most > "user friendly" applications hide those directories in the first place? > Even ls does it unless you use -a But the question is: These files and directories uses a lot of disk

Re: Application files in $HOME

2003-06-29 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Well, it may be included in the wishlist for cruft, the program I called userconfpurge may be a part of it. But before this would be necessary a change in the debian packages, to include which files are created in the user's home. Em Qui, 2003-06-26 às 14:31, Drew Scott Daniels escreveu: > Is conn

Re: Application files in $HOME

2003-06-29 Thread Brian Nelson
Richard Braakman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 02:02:04PM -0300, Daniel Ruoso wrote: >> What if the packages tells to dpkg which files or directories it will >> create on the user's home directory and when a package is purged the >> user could run a program to purge the fil

Re: Application files in $HOME

2003-06-29 Thread Mathieu Roy
Richard Braakman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a tapoté : > I have a better idea :) What if packages don't leave droppings in my > home directory in the first place? I have all sorts of dotfiles (and > even dot-directories) that I never asked for. It's reasonable for a > program to install a dotfile when

Re: Application

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Re: Application

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Re: Application files in $HOME

2003-06-26 Thread Richard Braakman
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 02:02:04PM -0300, Daniel Ruoso wrote: > What if the packages tells to dpkg which files or directories it will > create on the user's home directory and when a package is purged the > user could run a program to purge the files of packages that no longer > exists. I have a b

Re: Application files in $HOME

2003-06-26 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
Is connecting files to packages like this part of cruft? A potential wishlist item for cruft? Drew Daniels

Re: Application files in $HOME

2003-06-26 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Yes, I did it, but I'm not talking about me. I'm talking about a newbie user who doesn't understand why these files are in his home directory. This happens in the company I work... the administrative office works in debian and this people doesn't even know what is "ls". Imagine if they can unders

Re: Application files in $HOME

2003-06-26 Thread Adam Majer
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 02:02:04PM -0300, Daniel Ruoso wrote: > Hi, > > Recently I had a problem of exceeded quota in my home directory, so I > went cleaning it, and I saw many and many files and directories with > configurations for applications that I've runned in the past, but that > packages