Lourens replying to Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 13:36, Lourens Steenkamp wrote:
> > Lourens replying to Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > [big snip]
> >
> > >
> > > Doesn't matter to me... I have a local mirror for the 4 archs I
> > >
William Ballard wrote:
But keeping it clean primarily saves time. Nobody cares about disk
space.
Those running firewalls such as ipcop and APs such as pebble from
compact flash care quitea bit.
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Loki wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, Kirk Strauser wrote:
>
>
>>>I cheated on my mirror: I installed a Squid server and pointed apt at that
>>>proxy. That way, there's no penalty of downloading more packages than
>>>needed, but additional hosts benefit from the packages already downloaded
>>>by ea
William Ballard wrote:
> ...
>>I used to be obsessed with clean drives before I upgraded the 120MB Connor
>>in my Amiga. Since then, I haven't spent much time worrying about it.
>
>
> But keeping it clean primarily saves time. Nobody cares about disk
> space. Why download upgrades to all tho
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On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, Kirk Strauser wrote:
> I cheated on my mirror: I installed a Squid server and pointed apt at that
> proxy. That way, there's no penalty of downloading more packages than
> needed, but additional hosts benefit from the packages al
On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 13:36, Lourens Steenkamp wrote:
> Lourens replying to Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> [big snip]
>
> >
> > Doesn't matter to me... I have a local mirror for the 4 archs I use.
>
> I have also aquired a mirror (woody, sarge, sid, experimental, security
> stuff
On Thursday 12 August 2004 12:36, Lourens Steenkamp wrote:
> I have also aquired a mirror (woody, sarge, sid, experimental, security
> stuff, no src).
> Could you tell me how you keep your mirror in sync?
I cheated on my mirror: I installed a Squid server and pointed apt at that
proxy. That way
Lourens replying to Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[big snip]
>
> Doesn't matter to me... I have a local mirror for the 4 archs I use.
I have also aquired a mirror (woody, sarge, sid, experimental, security
stuff, no src).
Could you tell me how you keep your mirror in sync?
TIA.
*
On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 11:33, William Ballard wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 10:28:24AM -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote:
> > On Tuesday 10 August 2004 22:04, Tong Sun wrote:
> >
> > > Anybody here is as obsessed as I am for a clean system?
> >
> > No. Drives are cheap, but my time is not. I have a
On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 12:32:12AM +0300, Micha Feigin wrote:
>On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 08:33:49AM -0700, William Ballard wrote:
>>On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 10:28:24AM -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote:
>>>On Tuesday 10 August 2004 22:04, Tong Sun wrote:
Anybody here is as obsessed as I am for a clean
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 08:33:49AM -0700, William Ballard wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 10:28:24AM -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote:
> > On Tuesday 10 August 2004 22:04, Tong Sun wrote:
> >
> > > Anybody here is as obsessed as I am for a clean system?
> >
> > No. Drives are cheap, but my time is no
On Wednesday 11 August 2004 10:33, William Ballard wrote:
> But keeping it clean primarily saves time. Nobody cares about disk
> space. Why download upgrades to all those packages you never need?
> Why fight broken upgrades on things?
The OP did - he was deleting the contents of packages but le
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 10:28:24AM -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote:
> On Tuesday 10 August 2004 22:04, Tong Sun wrote:
>
> > Anybody here is as obsessed as I am for a clean system?
>
> No. Drives are cheap, but my time is not. I have a ridiculous number of
> packages installed (because Debian makes
On Tuesday 10 August 2004 22:04, Tong Sun wrote:
> Anybody here is as obsessed as I am for a clean system?
No. Drives are cheap, but my time is not. I have a ridiculous number of
packages installed (because Debian makes it cheap to experiment and I don't
get too worked up about removing the o
On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 09:16:19PM -0700, William Ballard wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 10:27:58PM -0500, matt zagrabelny wrote:
> > On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 22:04, Tong Sun wrote:
> > > try the 4th time.
> > >
> > > Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 14:56:21 -0700 (
On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 07:58:45 +0100, Oliver Elphick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It might in the future lead to some
> hiccups; for example, if a new and necessary dependency were to be added
> to kde, you would miss it. Arguably, that would be added at the wrong
> level, though.
Yes I think it wo
On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 04:04, Tong Sun wrote:
> Looking at the packages I installed, I know there
> would be lots of them that I will never use. E.g.,
>
> kscreensaver ktux xscreensaver kdewallpapers atlantik
> atlantikdesigner gnome-games gnome-games-data katomic
> kbackgammon kbattleship kblackbo
Once upon a time Jim McCloskey said...
> Tong Sun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> |> Anybody here is as obsessed as I am for a clean
> |> system?
> |>
> |> Looking at the packages I installed, I know there
> |> would be lots of them that I will never use. E.g.,
>
> Two of the most useful Debian t
Tong Sun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
|> Anybody here is as obsessed as I am for a clean
|> system?
|>
|> Looking at the packages I installed, I know there
|> would be lots of them that I will never use. E.g.,
Two of the most useful Debian tools in this regard are `deborphan' and
`debfoster' (both
On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 10:27:58PM -0500, matt zagrabelny wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 22:04, Tong Sun wrote:
> > try the 4th time.
> >
> > Date:Tue, 10 Aug 2004 14:56:21 -0700 (PDT)
> > Subject:Obsessed with a clean system
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTE
* Tong Sun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040811 05:04]:
> Looking at the packages I installed, I know there
> would be lots of them that I will never use. E.g.,
[..]
> I don't want them, but I have to keep them. This to me
> is a huge list.
Why do you have to keep them?
Yours sincerely,
Alexander
s
On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 22:27:58 -0500
matt zagrabelny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 22:04, Tong Sun wrote:
> >
> > Anybody here is as obsessed as I am for a clean
> > system?
> >
> > Looking at the packages I installed, I know there
> > would be lots of them that I will never
On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 22:04, Tong Sun wrote:
> try the 4th time.
>
> Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 14:56:21 -0700 (PDT)
> Subject: Obsessed with a clean system
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Hi,
>
> Anybody here is as obsessed as I am for a clean
> system?
try the 4th time.
Date:Tue, 10 Aug 2004 14:56:21 -0700 (PDT)
Subject:Obsessed with a clean system
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
Anybody here is as obsessed as I am for a clean
system?
Looking at the packages I installed, I know there
would be lots of them that I will never use
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