In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
>> "Dima" == Dima <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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>>> As you state, disk space is now pretty cheap. That's not an
>>> excuse to wantonly waste disk a la Microsoft, but symlinks
>>> aren't exactly huge.
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>Dima> Which is even worse, in a s
> "Dima" == Dima <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> As you state, disk space is now pretty cheap. That's not an
>> excuse to wantonly waste disk a la Microsoft, but symlinks
>> aren't exactly huge.
Dima> Which is even worse, in a sense -- they waste a whole disk
Dima> block e
On 7 Apr 1997, Alair Pereira do Lago wrote:
> " Raymond A. Ingles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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> > Installed packages go to a specific place in the file hierarchy, e.g.
> > "/usr/packages//". There's "/usr/packages//lib/",
> > "/usr/packages//bin/", etc. A script then makes symlinks from, say,
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
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>>Ok, the alternative is that the script uses the information provided
>>inside the package, which is precisely what we have now [...]
>
> With the exception that the package doesn't muck with the rest of the
>filesystem directly. It has to go through a
On Sun, 6 Apr 1997, Dima wrote:
>...
>Aint that simple -- the standard debian-provided script released
>yesterday has to know how to handle a new package I will release
>tomorrow. [...]
Well, actually, my description wasn't entirely complete. The idea is,
you have a set of directories that speci
On Sat, 5 Apr 1997, John Foster wrote:
>I see a couple of problems:
>
>From a users perspective the clourisation option for ls will be close to
>useless, as almost everything under /usr will be pale blue.
Unless you use "ls -L". Not to be pedantic (honest!), but from the
man page:
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-L
" Raymond A. Ingles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Installed packages go to a specific place in the file hierarchy, e.g.
> "/usr/packages//". There's "/usr/packages//lib/",
> "/usr/packages//bin/", etc. A script then makes symlinks from, say,
> "/usr/lib/" to "/usr/packages//lib/".
What about pe
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
>
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> If we use the "/usr/packages/*" method, though, we can separate
>installation into two steps. The maintainer supplies normal install
>scripts that handles everything under "/usr/packages//".
>It runs as, say, user "tool", group "bin". After that's f
Hi,
May I remind people that Debian does not depend on any
de-install scripts written by package developers, which could have
bugs and throw the whole system into chaos (which is just one of the
reasons behind the desire to have a secure package installation).
So, deinstallatio
I see a couple of problems:
>From a users perspective the clourisation option for ls will be close to
useless, as almost everything under /usr will be pale blue. I think that
ls will have to be modified to set the colour based on the links source
- but then how do you identify the symlinks that yo
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