ome cross-platform habits like:
"bzip2 -dc foo.tar.bz2 | tar xf -"
Not only will you then become more immune to changes in behaviour that was
non-standard to begin with, you'll also find adjustment to other systems a
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byte per order of magnitude of package size. ;)
> Bad joke? So sue me.
Yes, very bad. I couldn't resist correcting, which makes me at least as bad.
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> called the --debian flag.)
A deb plugin would be better. :)
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deal with non-Linux systems often". The
qualifier to that statement is very important.
Ask someone who's actually used a non-Linux UNIX or UNIX-like system to
explain it to you sometime.
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different kind of file format that you
might ever want to rsync, to make it rsync friendly?
Surely it makes more sense to make rsync able to more efficiently deal with
different formats easily.
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h of time or have an application on any
non-GNU system.
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You can probably assume that -c, -x, -f and -v behave the same across
implementations (modern implementations, anyway). That's about all, and
isn't that enough for everything you'd every want to do with tar?
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on.
I'm saying that if it does, it does. I just don't want to hear complaints
about a non-standard option suddenly behaving differently.
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Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> If we're expected to avoid any advanced features, why do the authors bother
> to implement them?
http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/creeping-featuritis.html
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because the thing it does is a complex task doesn't mean
it's got creeping featuritis. If it tried to do more than just package
management, that would be a different story.
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Martin Michlmayr - Debian Project Leader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At the same time I observe that this thread has generated much hot
> air, but I didn't see any proposal of who could act as DPL.
Please post the selection criteria for acceptance to the position of DAM.
The response "If you don
nly because other packages depended on them. If
one of these dependencies changes, debfoster will take notice, and
ask if you want to remove the old package.
.
This helps you to maintain a clean Debian install, without old
(mainly library) packages lying around that aren't used any mo
remove task-foo however you like and then run debfoster
with no arguments to get the same result.
Isn't that the kind of thing you're after?
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Marcin Owsiany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> No need to create a section for them. Birds can sit on the tree
> directly.
But what about now that we have pools? Will they drown?
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rounded tails.
http://www.comptons.com/encyclopedia/ARTICLES/0125/01443584_A.html
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/etc to the
chroot in the init script each time the daemon is started.
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otion/with typical American patriotism/
s/pragmatic/dogmatic/
So was your message supposed to be serious, or are you just trolling?
[1]: http://www.sciencedaily.com/print/1999/03/990301072238.htm
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Ivan E. Moore II <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> please tell me where I stated I would do the work for our users?
When you signed up as a Debian Developer.
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm working on a diskless workstation configuration where I don't want
> mailers running on each machine, though users may have access to the
> mail spool through nfs. Is it appropriate for apt-get to coerce exim
> to be installed when I only need a r
Glenn McGrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It could probably be done with HTTP, using cgi scripts (i dont know much
> about this), that way standard clients can be used to retrieve pieces of
> the Packages's file by putting the querry in the url.
And then you get the solution which has been mentio
Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The byte compilation should be done when the package is built, not at runtime,
> not at install time.
That doesn't work for languages that change their bytecode spec with
each version of their interpreter, and don't maintain backwards
compatibility.
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