Re: RFC: Making mail-transport-agent Priority: optional

2011-10-12 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 6:45 AM, Adam Borowski wrote: > That would break their system as daemons have no way to notify the user > something is wrong. The user will not be notified even if the daemons send a mail to them. I don't think any of the desktops GUIs that we ship know anything about the

Re: RFC: Making mail-transport-agent Priority: optional

2011-10-12 Thread Paul Wise
As someone who runs Debian on his smartphone, I completely agree with making an MTA optional. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: Re: RFC: Making mail-transport-agent Priority: optional

2011-10-12 Thread Josh Triplett
Bjørn Mork wrote: > Josh Triplett writes: >> What would it take to make this change? > > Changing the LSB. Or you need to keep the sendmail interface. Which is > what mail-transport-agent provides. lsb-core provides the LSB interface, and it has priority extra, not standard. It already has a d

Re: Re: / vs. /usr vs. fsck(8)

2011-10-12 Thread Josh Triplett
Stephan Seitz wrote: > On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 09:24:33PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: >> I still do not believe that portability is an issue, and please >> remember that this would not force people to use an initramfs unless >> they want to keep /usr on a standalone file system. > > Most of my syste

Re: Move all to /usr

2011-10-12 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Tollef Fog Heen writes: > ]] Ivan Shmakov > Tollef Fog Heen writes: >>> (With the assumption that /usr is on a separate fs from /): You >>> might very well need to load some drivers (be it network, FC, USB, >>> SATA or something else) and probe some bits (iSCSI auth?) to >>> a

Re: Re: RFC: Making mail-transport-agent Priority: optional

2011-10-12 Thread Josh Triplett
Adam Borowski wrote: > On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 02:39:13PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: >> Popcon shows that ~65-70% of Debian systems have exim4 installed. >> 30-35% of users cared enough to remove exim, and another 7% or so seem to >> have configured their systems to stop running it (at boot or oth

Re: / vs. /usr vs. fsck(8)

2011-10-12 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Oct 13, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Using the inittamfs on my 6 storage servers (each 48 HDD 2 TB intern and > the same extern)requires "rootdelay=3000" and longer. Working without > reduce the average boottime to 12 minutes. Looks like you need to work out what is going wrong with the initra

Re: RFC: Making mail-transport-agent Priority: optional

2011-10-12 Thread Adam Borowski
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 02:39:13PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > Popcon shows that ~65-70% of Debian systems have exim4 installed. > 30-35% of users cared enough to remove exim, and another 7% or so seem to > have configured their systems to stop running it (at boot or otherwise) > without actually

Re: RFC: Making mail-transport-agent Priority: optional

2011-10-12 Thread Bjørn Mork
Josh Triplett writes: > What would it take to make this change? Changing the LSB. Or you need to keep the sendmail interface. Which is what mail-transport-agent provides. > Have I missed any important points? You forgot to explain the upside, reason, why, gain, whatever. > Would any other

Re: / vs. /usr vs. fsck(8)

2011-10-12 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Stephan Seitz, Am 2011-10-12 22:20:50, hacktest Du folgendes herunter: > Most of my systems don’t use initramfs and have / and /usr on > different file systems. I am no interested in changing this good > tradition. Here too... Using the inittamfs on my 6 storage servers (each 48 HDD 2 TB in

RFC: Making mail-transport-agent Priority: optional

2011-10-12 Thread Josh Triplett
I recently booted up a Debian Live "standard" image on a test system, and noticed that it included a running instance of exim. Curious why a live system would need an MTA, I found Debian Live's policy that the "standard" image contains everything installed as part of a standard Debian system (and

Re: Move all to /usr

2011-10-12 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Matt Zagrabelny, Am 2011-10-11 11:21:30, hacktest Du folgendes herunter: > There are good arguments in the following link (Marco provided it with > his initial email.) > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/UsrMove I have read this too but what about systems which do not have an initr

Re: / vs. /usr vs. fsck(8)

2011-10-12 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 09:24:33PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: The Debian initramfs of my sid system is 10 MB, while the one from my My / (testing) is 193M, so I guess, I have much more „emergency” programs available than you. The last time I was trapped within a initramfs, the available progr

Re: / vs. /usr vs. fsck(8)

2011-10-12 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Oct 12, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > On the other hand, Debian has chosen against that and relies on klibc, > ipconfig, etc. for early userspace and thus, the initramfs. I suspect > the main motivations behind these decisions were portability and size > (please correct me and add references). The

Re: Move all to /usr

2011-10-12 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2011-10-12, Daniel Baumann wrote: > On 10/12/2011 05:42 PM, Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre wrote: >> Did you know about http://www.gobolinux.org/ ? > gobolinux is iirc that project that aims to replicate what windows does: > having every application (and it's depends) in one directory so that > uninst

Re: Move all to /usr

2011-10-12 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Ivan Shmakov | > Tollef Fog Heen writes: | | > (With the assumption that /usr is on a separate fs from /): You might | > very well need to load some drivers (be it network, FC, USB, SATA or | > something else) and probe some bits (iSCSI auth?) to actually get to | > the right block d

Re: Move all to /usr

2011-10-12 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 10/12/2011 05:42 PM, Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre wrote: > Did you know about http://www.gobolinux.org/ ? gobolinux is iirc that project that aims to replicate what windows does: having every application (and it's depends) in one directory so that uninstalling is a matter of removing a single direct

Re: looking for a sponsor for calligra

2011-10-12 Thread Adrien
Hi, Ana Guerrero wrote: > Adrien, for this please ask in pkg-kde-talk@lists.alioth or in irc > #debian-qt-kde. thanks for the answer. So I will continue the discussion on pkg-kde-talk ;-) Adrien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe

Metronamica training course fall 2011

2011-10-12 Thread Hedwig van Delden
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Re: Move all to /usr

2011-10-12 Thread Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 8:48 AM, Jon Dowland wrote: [...] >> oiow, someone with time should just make that trichotomy happen in FHS 3.0. > > I think there's a chicken-and-egg problem here: FHS want to document existing > practice.   Someone needs to put work into a runnable concept OS at the very

Bug#645103: ITP: aspsms-t -- aspsms-t is an open source /*GPL*/ jabber2sms transport written in perl // http://github.com/micressor/aspsms-t

2011-10-12 Thread Marco Balmer
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Marco Balmer * Package name: aspsms-t Version : 1.3.0 Upstream Author : Marco Balmer * URL : http://github.com/micressor/aspsms-t * License : GPL-2 Programming Lang: Perl Description : aspsms-t is a jabber/xmpp

Re: Move all to /usr

2011-10-12 Thread Luca Capello
Hi there! On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 02:58:24 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > So let's look at the reasons against merging /usr in / listed in my > final summary. All of them do not apply to merging / in /usr, and > actually become arguments in favour of doing it: [...] > - dmcrypt: more parts would not nee

Re: Move all to /usr

2011-10-12 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 01:56:47PM +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote: > moving / to /usr will take a lot of time in the linux ecosystem. since i > prefere doing such a thing only once in a decade, going for the right > thing directly is better than going for something incomplete first. Sensible. > oiow

Re: Move all to /usr

2011-10-12 Thread Luca Capello
Hi there! On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 06:24:09 +0200, Ivan Shmakov wrote: >> unruh writes: >> On 2011-10-12, Marco d'Itri wrote: > >> - read only system: more parts would be read only > > > ? Surely you can make whatever you want read only now. > > With all the sort of software continuo

Re: Move all to /usr

2011-10-12 Thread Daniel Baumann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/12/2011 11:28 AM, Marco d'Itri wrote: > This would be the practical effect, but let's try to not get away > too much from UNIX... moving / to /usr will take a lot of time in the linux ecosystem. since i prefere doing such a thing only once in a

Re: Move all to /usr

2011-10-12 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Tollef Fog Heen writes: >> The problem, AIUI, is that we start udev(7) before /usr is mounted. >> As udev is prone to spawn all the sorts of software in turn, we're >> either going to move more and more from /usr to /, /or/ to invent >> more kluges so that udev scripts would actually wa

Re: Move all to /usr

2011-10-12 Thread Adam Borowski
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 12:50:32PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Adam Borowski (12/10/2011): > > On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 06:56:25AM +, Philipp Kern wrote: > > > On 2011-10-11, Ognyan Kulev wrote: > > > > > > > > /usr/include -> /usr/share/include > > > > > > Obviously broken. Includes can

Re: Move all to /usr

2011-10-12 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Ivan Shmakov | The problem, AIUI, is that we start udev(7) before /usr is | mounted. As udev is prone to spawn all the sorts of software in | turn, we're either going to move more and more from /usr to /, | /or/ to invent more kluges so that udev scripts would actually

Re: Move all to /usr

2011-10-12 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Adam Borowski (12/10/2011): > On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 06:56:25AM +, Philipp Kern wrote: > > On 2011-10-11, Ognyan Kulev wrote: > > > > > > /usr/include -> /usr/share/include > > > > Obviously broken. Includes can (and will be) architecture-specific. > > With multiarch, they are shareable.

Bug#645072: ITP: kinect-audio-setup -- enable audio input from the Microsoft Kinect sensor device

2011-10-12 Thread Antonio Ospite
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Antonio Ospite Dear Maintainer, * Package name: kinect-audio-setup Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Drew Fisher , Antonio Ospite * URL : http://git.ao2.it/kinect-audio-setup.git * License : BSD-2-Clause, WTFPL Program

Re: Move all to /usr

2011-10-12 Thread Adam Borowski
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 06:56:25AM +, Philipp Kern wrote: > On 2011-10-11, Ognyan Kulev wrote: > > На 11.10.2011 17:32, Marco d'Itri написа: > >> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/UsrMove > >> This reminds me a bit of the /usr/doc/ => /usr/share/doc/ transition. > > This changes semanti

Re: Move all to /usr

2011-10-12 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Oct 12, Daniel Baumann wrote: > On 10/11/2011 04:32 PM, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > I am still not 100% persuaded that this would be easy to do, but at > > least I think that it has more merit than the old "move all to /"... > i'd rather see a /$foo and /usr/$foo merger to /system/$foo, so we can

Re: Move all to /usr

2011-10-12 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Daniel Baumann writes: > On 10/11/2011 04:32 PM, Marco d'Itri wrote: >> I am still not 100% persuaded that this would be easy to do, but at >> least I think that it has more merit than the old "move all to /"... > i'd rather see a /$foo and /usr/$foo merger to /system/$foo, so we >

Re: / vs. /usr vs. fsck(8)

2011-10-12 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Reinhard Tartler writes: > On Mi, Okt 12, 2011 at 06:09:00 (CEST), Ivan Shmakov wrote: […] > AFAIUI Harald (the fedora maintainer for their initramfs tool > dracut), he dislikes having a separate set of tools in /usr and the > initramfs, i.e., he strongly favors putting glibc, bash,

Re: Move all to /usr

2011-10-12 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 10/11/2011 04:32 PM, Marco d'Itri wrote: > I am still not 100% persuaded that this would be easy to do, but at > least I think that it has more merit than the old "move all to /"... i'd rather see a /$foo and /usr/$foo merger to /system/$foo, so we can have the trichotomy /system, /local and /h

Re: Move all to /usr

2011-10-12 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Philipp Kern writes: > On 2011-10-11, Ognyan Kulev wrote: > На 11.10.2011 17:32, Marco d'Itri написа: […] >> /usr/src -> /usr/share/src > Probably depends if you want to support compile outputs there. I > guess some people compile their kernels there. Which isn't a g

Re: looking for a sponsor for calligra

2011-10-12 Thread Ana Guerrero
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 11:06:35AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 4:29 AM, Adrien wrote: > > > The packaging is now ready and we are looking for a sponsor to include it in > > the qt-kde repository (http://qt-kde.debian.net/). So experienced users can > > test it before the offi

Re: Move all to /usr

2011-10-12 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2011-10-11, Ognyan Kulev wrote: > На 11.10.2011 17:32, Marco d'Itri написа: >> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/UsrMove >> This reminds me a bit of the /usr/doc/ => /usr/share/doc/ transition. > This changes semantics of /usr directory. /usr becomes all shareable > files, /usr/share -