> The reason we need virtual packages is so that we can allow people who
> (like myself) have gone out and bought real Motif to use it on Debian.
> I would be glad to throw away my Motif CD, and only use Lesstif. Last
> time I tried compiling Nedit against lesstif, the results were almost
> usable
On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Erik B. Andersen wrote:
> The reason we need virtual packages is so that we can allow people who
> (like myself) have gone out and bought real Motif to use it on Debian.
> I would be glad to throw away my Motif CD, and only use Lesstif. Last
> time I tried compiling Nedit aga
>
> On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, Alex Yukhimets wrote:
>
> [snip]
> > > contrib. Try to run it on Lesstif and it won't work, because it will
> > > not find a Motif 2.0 library. Lesstif provides a Motif 1.2 lib.
> >
> > Yeah, but Lesstif was not meant to be *binary* compatible with real
> > Motif, only
> On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, Alex Yukhimets wrote:
>
> [snip]
> > > contrib. Try to run it on Lesstif and it won't work, because it will
> > > not find a Motif 2.0 library. Lesstif provides a Motif 1.2 lib.
> >
> > Yeah, but Lesstif was not meant to be *binary* compatible with real
> > Motif, only *s
On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, Alex Yukhimets wrote:
[snip]
> > contrib. Try to run it on Lesstif and it won't work, because it will
> > not find a Motif 2.0 library. Lesstif provides a Motif 1.2 lib.
>
> Yeah, but Lesstif was not meant to be *binary* compatible with real
> Motif, only *source code* comp
> > I don't think that support for different Moitfs are needed.
> > All known software despite of being compiled with Motif 2.0 does not
> > use features not present in Motif 1.2
> > The reason for this is that "big unices" does not have Motif 2.0 actively
> > shiped from the vendors yet and usin
>
> > On Sun, 22 Jun 1997, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> >
> > > What about the motif-dummy thingie we discussed? How can I run plan having
> > > Motif and not lesstif installed? Can you make sure it doesn't Depends: on
> > > lesstif, but rather on a virtual package 'motif-libs' which lesstif, and
> On Sun, 22 Jun 1997, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
>
> > What about the motif-dummy thingie we discussed? How can I run plan having
> > Motif and not lesstif installed? Can you make sure it doesn't Depends: on
> > lesstif, but rather on a virtual package 'motif-libs' which lesstif, and a
> > to-be-c
(I'm on debian-devel, no need to Cc:)
On Sun, Jun 22 1997 15:11 EDT "Colin R. Telmer" writes:
> Given this, using chmod to set user or group ID on execution(s) is
> useless. It will always run as the uid hardwired in.
[...]
> The previous maintainer of plan (Christoph Lameter) had a
>
On Sun, 22 Jun 1997, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> What about the motif-dummy thingie we discussed? How can I run plan having
> Motif and not lesstif installed? Can you make sure it doesn't Depends: on
> lesstif, but rather on a virtual package 'motif-libs' which lesstif, and a
> to-be-created-dummy
What about the motif-dummy thingie we discussed? How can I run plan having
Motif and not lesstif installed? Can you make sure it doesn't Depends: on
lesstif, but rather on a virtual package 'motif-libs' which lesstif, and a
to-be-created-dummy package for Motif owners, would provide. Is that doab
I have run into a few situations regarding packaging plan that I would
appreciate some comments on. I will begin by picking up where I left off
in a conversion before I left town for a couple of weeks.
On Fri, 6 Jun 1997, David Frey wrote:
> Hi Colin,
>
> On Thu, Jun 5 1997 14:59 EDT "Colin R. T
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