Tom Huckstep wrote:
On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 04:27:47AM +0000, Adam Majer wrote:
Where does polipo fit?
I started using polipo when wwwoffle was unmaintainted and buggy. It's now
gone through another release, so presumably is better.
I'm at a loss to answer your question though. Polipo is another choice,
another piece of high-quality software that Debian users might want. Where
does Gnome fit? Where does xemacs fit? Where does uw-imapd fit?
Number of reasons here. Gnome is good just in case Qt is broken. Also,
since I might want to install different Qt versions, it is nice to have
software that does not depend on it...
xemacs - "Editor" with lisp. I like it better than Emacs due to nicer
default X interface. emacs and xemacs also seem to have broken latex
syntax highlighting at different times over the last couple of years...
uw-imapd - I could not find another IMAP server that handled mbox
mailboxes and actually *worked*! The other ones tend to destroy email
(ie. delete headers, reattach message to some other headers, evil
things....) especially the GNU one..
Perhaps it would help if you told me *why* you are asking it. Is it because
you want to prevent the Debian archive getting too big?
As long as you'll maintain it properly and O: packages that you do not
want to maintain, you can package it. :) The problem with the debian
archive is that is it not "too big" in sense of size, but it is too
filled with packages that essentially have no maintainers. Someone
packages a piece of software and goes MIA. Anyway, as long as you don't
do that... :)
The reason I was asking is because it might be a good idea to know the
uniqueness of something like polipo with respect to other offline
proxies like wwwoffle. Anyway, we only seem to have one offline proxy,
wwwoffle. It might be a good idea to have a backup just in case wwwoffle
is broken under some circumstances, right?
- Adam
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