Re: source packages and censorship

1998-05-01 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Fri, May 01, 1998 at 11:33:55AM -0400, Daniel Martin at cush wrote: > I think someone already proposed this idea, and it was immediately > ignored, so I'm going to suggest it again: I didn't ignore it. > What about a pine-installer package? > > This would be similar to the netscape3 and nets

Re: source packages and censorship

1998-05-01 Thread Santiago Vila
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 1 May 1998, Daniel Martin at cush wrote: > Let me lay out my opinion of the differences of the effects of the two > methods: Let me tell you that there is a workaround for all your objections :-) > Method pine-src: > --- > - the user who h

Re: source packages and censorship

1998-05-01 Thread Raul Miller
Daniel Martin at cush <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't quite understand what ability it is that you think would be > discarded. The ability to distribute everything needed to compile and > install pine all at once? Essentially, yes. > I don't see how this would not be accomplished by a pi

Re: source packages and censorship

1998-05-01 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Daniel Martin at cush <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What about a pine-installer package? > > > > This would be similar to the netscape3 and netscape4 packages of old - > > the user would be asked in the preinst to put the pine .orig.tar.gz, > > the .dif

Re: source packages and censorship

1998-05-01 Thread Raul Miller
Daniel Martin at cush <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What about a pine-installer package? > > This would be similar to the netscape3 and netscape4 packages of old - > the user would be asked in the preinst to put the pine .orig.tar.gz, > the .diff.gz and the .dsc files into /tmp (or $TMPDIR); if th

Re: source packages and censorship

1998-05-01 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
I think someone already proposed this idea, and it was immediately ignored, so I'm going to suggest it again: What about a pine-installer package? This would be similar to the netscape3 and netscape4 packages of old - the user would be asked in the preinst to put the pine .orig.tar.gz, the .diff.

Re: source packages and censorship

1998-05-01 Thread Raul Miller
Jules Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > deb, however, is not the appropriate format for a source distribution - and > by distributing something in source form as .deb, you are spreading a small > amount of confusion. So this means we should stop distributing .el sources, and compiling them in the

Re: source packages and censorship

1998-05-01 Thread Jules Bean
--On Fri, May 1, 1998 1:13 pm +0200 "Santiago Vila" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > We must ask ourselves: Why do we make .deb packages? > Simple answer: Because our users find them useful. > > Remember the discussion about the purity package? Well, it was ag