Re: is it possible to install a desktop-manager without python and perl?

2009-06-30 Thread Cowley Harris
--snip-- >> I now have a list of trolls to ignore, at least some good that came of >> the discussion. --snip-- H -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Goodbye debian

2009-06-26 Thread Cowley Harris
>Given the ghastliness of maintaining Perl code I've had to maintain perl code at work, so you have my sympathies. But in Perl's defense, it's not a necessary characteristic of Perl to be hard to maintain. It's just the inherent flexibility of the language that makes it easier to write "Write On

Re: is it possible to install a desktop-manager without python and perl?

2009-06-24 Thread Cowley Harris
Will you "not be reading it", in the same way you weren't continuing the discussion? Here is the thing, When you describe people in a negative way, that is in an insult. The big hint that you are doing so, is when you start the sentence with "you're ...". If you are expressing an opinion, it sta

Re: is it possible to install a desktop-manager without python and perl?

2009-06-24 Thread Cowley Harris
Hal Vaughan wrote.  "But I haven't seen anyone insult him yet -- but then I haven't read many of the overnight posts yet." Anybody here watch "The daily show". The first time I ever saw a show, they had a piece where they had Donald Rumsfeld denying he had ever said there were weapons of mass d

Re: is it possible to install a desktop-manager without python and perl?

2009-06-23 Thread Cowley Harris
This guy asked a relatively simple question which I'm paraphrasing here as "can you run Debian without perl or python", the answer is pretty much no. He gave his reasons for the question and his opinion on the answers he was given. He's also started probably the most interesting thread on this lis

Re: Informations about LVM2

2009-04-16 Thread Cowley Harris
Hi, After looking at the code, it turns out lvmsar and lvmsadc are just stubs with no functionality that I can see. so, still not implemented yet. :( Uninstalling and re-installing will _not_ help. My bad. 2009/4/16 Cowley Harris : > Hi > > > 2009/4/16 Boyd Stephen Smith

Re: Informations about LVM2

2009-04-16 Thread Cowley Harris
Hi 2009/4/16 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. : > In <464aa698-33b4-464a-b5be-85e3db338...@gmail.com>, Sylvain Dauthieux wrote: >>My problem is : "lvmsar" and "lvmsadc" are not implemented. > > Yeah, they never have been in Linux LVM2.  They probably never will be because > the standard methods of monitori

Re: Informations about LVM2

2009-04-16 Thread Cowley Harris
First time replying so please forgive any first time mistakes. If you "apt-cache show lvm2" what do you see? if you run "apt-file list lvm2 | egrep 'lvmsar|lvmsadc' " Does it show lvmsar and lvmsadc as being present? >From the documentation I've read there is a conflict between lvm-common an