Re: bogo-1.2-1 released

1995-11-28 Thread Andrew Howell
Bill Mitchell writes: > > Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > If this is more of your file-granularity stuff I don't want to hear > > it, I'm afraid. > > It's not, and I know you don't. You're welcome to ignore anything I > do say about that. I'm glad we're being nice to each other now :) Andr

Re: bogo-1.2-1 released

1995-11-28 Thread Bill Mitchell
Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Bill Mitchell writes ("Re: bogo-1.2-1 released"): [.. downside comments ..] > [.. disagreement ..] [.. upside comments ..] > I'm confused. Here you're making my point for me. I wasn't arguing, really. I was remarking on

Re: bogo-1.2-1 released

1995-11-27 Thread Ian Jackson
Bill Mitchell writes ("Re: bogo-1.2-1 released"): > From a user/installer point of view, it seems unhelpful to combine them. > It sounds like this would hide theinfo for each small package which would > be available as Description/Extended description if each was packaged > s

Re: bogo-1.2-1 released

1995-11-27 Thread Bill Mitchell
Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Karl Ferguson writes ("bogo-1.2-1 released"): > > Well, it's a tough job, but someone's got to be low enough to do some > > small Debian packages :-) One day when I feel more confident I'll do > > some real packages > > Does anyone else think it would be

Re: bogo-1.2-1 released

1995-11-27 Thread Karl Ferguson
> Karl Ferguson writes ("bogo-1.2-1 released"): > > Well, it's a tough job, but someone's got to be low enough to do some > > small Debian packages :-) One day when I feel more confident I'll do > > some real packages > > Does anyone else think it would be a good idea to combine some of > these

Re: bogo-1.2-1 released

1995-11-27 Thread Peter Tobias
Ian Jackson wrote: > Karl Ferguson writes ("bogo-1.2-1 released"): > > Well, it's a tough job, but someone's got to be low enough to do some > > small Debian packages :-) One day when I feel more confident I'll do > > some real packages > > Does anyone else think it would be a good idea to combi

Re: bogo-1.2-1 released

1995-11-27 Thread Karl Ferguson
> > As I said in my reply too, I think it'll be a good idea as well. I'll make > > a systool package and encorporate the utilities I've just released in it. > > Sound good? > > Yes :-). > > > Peter Ok, that's settled then. IanM: Could you delete the procinfo, memtest and bogo packages before

Re: bogo-1.2-1 released

1995-11-27 Thread Karl Ferguson
> > Does anyone else think it would be a good idea to combine some of > > these very small packages together into a somewhat larger one ? > > Yes, that's a good idea. There could be separate packages for system > tools (memtest, bogomips, ...), for console tools (open, vlock, ...) > and for other

Re: bogo-1.2-1 released

1995-11-27 Thread Ian Jackson
Karl Ferguson writes ("bogo-1.2-1 released"): > Well, it's a tough job, but someone's got to be low enough to do some > small Debian packages :-) One day when I feel more confident I'll do > some real packages Does anyone else think it would be a good idea to combine some of these very small pac

Re: bogo-1.2-1 released

1995-11-26 Thread Karl Ferguson
> > With all due respect, I fail to see any value in being able to calculate > BogoMips from the command line. > > The uptime command provides accurate system load information in a much > more useful format. The BogoMips calculation just wastes CPU cycles, which > is certainly not something you

Re: bogo-1.2-1 released

1995-11-26 Thread Jeff Noxon
With all due respect, I fail to see any value in being able to calculate BogoMips from the command line. The uptime command provides accurate system load information in a much more useful format. The BogoMips calculation just wastes CPU cycles, which is certainly not something you would want to d