Re: Gnome Packages annoyances

2001-05-08 Thread John Galt
What is cat? On Mon, 7 May 2001, Brian Nelson wrote: >Nathan E Norman wrote: >> >> On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 12:11:38PM -0400, Brian Nelson wrote: >> > Rob Mahurin wrote: >> > > Makes it read like a conversation. "Question? Answer!" makes more >> > > sense to read than "Answer! Question?" >> >

Re: Gnome Packages annoyances

2001-05-07 Thread Brian Nelson
Nathan E Norman wrote: > > On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 12:11:38PM -0400, Brian Nelson wrote: > > Rob Mahurin wrote: > > > Makes it read like a conversation. "Question? Answer!" makes more > > > sense to read than "Answer! Question?" > > > > What's the matter? You don't like Jeopardy? :b > > I'll

Re: Gnome Packages annoyances

2001-05-07 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 12:11:38PM -0400, Brian Nelson wrote: > Rob Mahurin wrote: > > > > On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 11:43:08AM +1000, Brian May wrote: > > > > "Karsten" == Karsten M Self writes: > > > > > > Karsten> Place your response *after* quoted material. > > > > > > Why? > > > > Mak

Re: Gnome Packages annoyances

2001-05-07 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 01:47:32PM +0200, Preben Randhol wrote: > Preben Randhol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 07/05/2001 (11:50) : > > Thanks, I'll try it. > > # apt-get install reportbug [...] > Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: > reportbug: Depends: python-newt but it

Re: Gnome Packages annoyances

2001-05-07 Thread Brian Nelson
Rob Mahurin wrote: > > On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 11:43:08AM +1000, Brian May wrote: > > > "Karsten" == Karsten M Self writes: > > > > Karsten> Place your response *after* quoted material. > > > > Why? > > Makes it read like a conversation. "Question? Answer!" makes more > sense to read t

Re: Gnome Packages annoyances

2001-05-07 Thread Preben Randhol
Preben Randhol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 07/05/2001 (13:50) : > # apt-get install reportbug > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have > requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable

Re: Gnome Packages annoyances

2001-05-07 Thread Preben Randhol
Preben Randhol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 07/05/2001 (11:50) : > Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 07/05/2001 (11:42) : > > Try reportbug. This is not the only debian bug report tool, but it > > Thanks, I'll try it. # apt-get install reportbug Reading Package Lists... Done Building Depe

Re: Gnome Packages annoyances

2001-05-07 Thread Preben Randhol
Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 07/05/2001 (11:42) : > Try reportbug. This is not the only debian bug report tool, but it Thanks, I'll try it. > probably aggravated by version mismatches. Since ximian no longer > claims to support woody, I commented them out of my apt sources.list. I

Re: Gnome Packages annoyances

2001-05-07 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 11:43:08AM +1000, Brian May wrote: > > "Karsten" == Karsten M Self writes: > > Karsten> Place your response *after* quoted material. > > Why? Makes it read like a conversation. "Question? Answer!" makes more sense to read than "Answer! Question?" > I like to

Re: Gnome Packages annoyances

2001-05-06 Thread Brian May
> "Karsten" == Karsten M Self writes: Karsten> Place your response *after* quoted material. Why? I like to see the new message at the top, instead of having to scroll down to access it. Especially in this case, since you can tell what the poster is saying without reading the quoted mess

Re: Gnome Packages annoyances

2001-05-06 Thread Brian May
> "Ross" == Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ross> this would temporarily remove much of my system, and since some key Ross> packages aren't in woody (e.g., sawmill), I took a less radical Ross> approach. It is called sawfish-gnome, and it is in unstable. Not sure about te

Re: Gnome Packages annoyances

2001-05-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, May 06, 2001 at 05:43:51PM -0700, Ross Boylan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Try reportbug. This is not the only debian bug report tool, but it > seemed the right choice for me, and works pretty well. The only > problem is that it sometimes takes quite awhile for it to query the > existing

Re: Gnome Packages annoyances

2001-05-06 Thread Ross Boylan
Try reportbug. This is not the only debian bug report tool, but it seemed the right choice for me, and works pretty well. The only problem is that it sometimes takes quite awhile for it to query the existing bug database; I'm not sure why. It's often much slower than getting the same info on the

Re: Gnome Packages annoyances

2001-05-06 Thread Brian May
> "Preben" == Preben Randhol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Preben> Why is there always problems with files being in two gnome Preben> packages. I only ask to get a rationale, not to blame the Preben> packagers. Gnome is a big complex system, but I'm just Preben> wondering why th

Re: Gnome Packages annoyances

2001-05-06 Thread Preben Randhol
"Karsten M. Self" wrote on 06/05/2001 (11:34) : > If it's a Debian package (e.g.: not Ximian), file a Debian bug. Yes, but why isn't this problem picked up by the package process before the package gets out there? And for bug report it would be great if there was a program out there that could

Re: Gnome Packages annoyances

2001-05-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, May 05, 2001 at 04:49:42PM +0200, Preben Randhol ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Why is there always problems with files being in two gnome packages. I > only ask to get a rationale, not to blame the packagers. Gnome is a > big complex system, but I'm just wondering why this seem to always >

Gnome Packages annoyances

2001-05-05 Thread Preben Randhol
Why is there always problems with files being in two gnome packages. I only ask to get a rationale, not to blame the packagers. Gnome is a big complex system, but I'm just wondering why this seem to always happen. -- Preben Randhol --- http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/ --