Re: status of Progeny projects

2003-11-12 Thread Eike Sauer
Peter Zoeller schrieb: > I have been long time user of linux and I find the greatest weakness to > be the ability to easily install applications which seems to be the > intent of this group. I allways found it less easy to - go to mozilla website - find the appropriate binary - download it - r

Re: status of Progeny projects

2003-11-12 Thread Eric Schwartz
On Tuesday, Nov 11, 2003, at 23:39 America/Denver, Peter Zoeller wrote: Most software installs fail as a result of missing libraries. I would like to see a central repository for all libraries, old, new and development. A repository that when a library dependancy needs to be satisfied, the ins

Re: status of Progeny projects

2003-11-12 Thread Peter Zoeller
Hi Ian: I have been long time user of linux and I find the greatest weakness to be the ability to easily install applications which seems to be the intent of this group. I would like to make a suggestion with respect to handling of dependancies. Most software installs fail as a result of missi

Re: status of Progeny projects

2003-11-04 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Ian Murdock wrote: >We have ported Red Hat's Anaconda installer to Debian; This rocks. I have an extensive PXE+kickstart based server build system at work and I was considering hacking d-i to read a kickstart configuration file, this looks like it's saved me the troub