RE: DO NOT UPGRADE TO POTATO. MENU UPLOAD ON OCT 2 KILLS SYSTEMS

1999-10-06 Thread Terry Katz
2.1.3-2 is one that does it ... It doesn't totally kill the system .. It seems to start up the various wm's, and they run at about 95% cpu and 88%+ memory for about 2-5 mins (each), but they do die (or finish?) and everything is fine (my worst case, I saw gnome-panel running at 95% for about 3 min

RE: Packages should not Conflict on the basis of duplicate functionality

1999-10-03 Thread Terry Katz
So, I withdraw my suggestion ;-) -Terry > On Sun, 3 Oct 1999, Terry Katz wrote: > > > Why not implement a system similar to that in Irix ( and a few > other sysv > > style systems ), and use a 'chkconfig' type setup.. > > > > Irix implements it with a confi

RE: Packages should not Conflict on the basis of duplicate functionality

1999-10-03 Thread Terry Katz
ger implementation (to get started) than changing start->go, and if you change it just locally then whenever a package is upgraded you'll have to add the check line to the beginning of the init scripts .. but long term, this may be a nice feature for debian in general .. no? my 2c -Terry Katz &g