On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 07:18:31PM +0200, Viktor Rosenfeld wrote:
> Ben Burton wrote:
> >
> > > ... so you get a bigger machine for the job.
> >
> > I suspect the point of Casper's post was that this is not always possible.
>
> I really have a hard time believing that.
>
Unfortunatly this is e
> Ben Burton wrote:
> >
> > > ... so you get a bigger machine for the job.
> >
> > I suspect the point of Casper's post was that this is not always
possible.
>
> I really have a hard time believing that.
>
Maybe because you live in one of the richest countries in the world...
/Emil
Ben Burton wrote:
>
> > ... so you get a bigger machine for the job.
>
> I suspect the point of Casper's post was that this is not always possible.
I really have a hard time believing that.
Viktor
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> ... so you get a bigger machine for the job.
I suspect the point of Casper's post was that this is not always possible.
Ben.
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Casper Gielen wrote:
>
> On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 11:44:14AM +0200, Viktor Rosenfeld wrote:
> >
> > Don't tell me, that you absolutely have to install Debian on a 386. No
> > one has to do that, you can always use a bigger machine for the initial
> > setup. Hell, back in the "old days" people wer
On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 11:57:04AM +0200, Jens Benecke wrote:
> On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 03:07:46PM +0200, Casper Gielen wrote:
>
> > To implement this not a single line of code needs to be written. Apt is
> > designed to do stuff like this. A utillity to add/remove lines to
> > /etc/apt/sources.l
On Fri, 25 May 2001, Ben Burton wrote:
>
>> Is it generally possible (I know this is possible with sawfish) for the
>> user to install a theme without root privileges? If so, then one big theme
>> package is useful to allow a user to browse themes, select the one(s) they
>> like, and copy it/them
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On Friday 25 May 2001 00:55, Ben Burton wrote something to this effect:
> > Is it generally possible (I know this is possible with sawfish) for the
> > user to install a theme without root privileges? If so, then one big
> > theme package is useful to allow a us
On Fri, 25 May 2001, Rob Walker wrote:
> It would be nice if there were a suid root, but user-runnable, theme
> installer which would install over the Network or from a local tarball
> of themes. That way a user could install the themes which he wanted,
> they would go in system space, and the oth
On Fri, 25 May 2001, Ben Burton wrote:
> > Although best would be a KDE-theme installer. Are the themes
> > available individually anywhere, in a format consistent enough for
> > automating the debianization and installation?
>
> By this do you mean an empty debian package whose configuration proc
> On Fri, 25 May 2001 03:44:46 -0400, Matt Zimmerman
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>> > Ben> I am hesitant to do (1) because of the user's disk space usage.
>> > Ben> I am hesitant to do (2) because I'm not sure that debian wants a
>> > Ben> million kde-theme-* packages on its servers.
Mat
> On Fri, 25 May 2001 15:07:46 +0200, Casper Gielen
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
Casper> The only disadvantage I can think of is that when a new
Casper> section is added apt/dselect won't know about it until it's
Casper> added to sources.list . I've made up two solutions to this but
What
On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 03:57:02PM +0200, andrea gelmini wrote:
> On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 03:07:46PM +0200, Casper Gielen wrote:
> > No, but those packages need to be parsed and checked for dependencies by
> > pkg etc... This takes lots of cycles and lots of RAM on _all_ machines,
> > regardless of
On Fri, 25 May 2001 15:26:38 +0200
Casper Gielen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 11:44:14AM +0200, Viktor Rosenfeld wrote:
> >
> > Don't tell me, that you absolutely have to install Debian on a 386. No
> > one has to do that, you can always use a bigger machine for the initi
On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 03:07:46PM +0200, Casper Gielen wrote:
> No, but those packages need to be parsed and checked for dependencies by
> pkg etc... This takes lots of cycles and lots of RAM on _all_ machines,
> regardless of wether those packages are actually installed. Using
i see, but the con
On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 11:44:14AM +0200, Viktor Rosenfeld wrote:
>
> Don't tell me, that you absolutely have to install Debian on a 386. No
> one has to do that, you can always use a bigger machine for the initial
> setup. Hell, back in the "old days" people were suggesting to compile
> the ker
On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 11:39:23AM +0200, andrea gelmini wrote:
> On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 10:32:41AM +0200, Michael Neuffer wrote:
>
> > There are more then enough machines around that already have
> > problems with the package management. Machines that must run
> > with 16 or maybe 8 MB of memo
andrea gelmini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> immo vero scripsit
Hi,
> > There are more then enough machines around that already have
> > problems with the package management. Machines that must run
> > with 16 or maybe 8 MB of memory (or even less) with an 386sx/16
> > CPU or similar.
> do you really i
(Disclaimer: I'n not a Debian devoloper nor did I read the ancient flame
wars.)
Michael Neuffer wrote:
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/$ apt-cache search . | wc -l
> >7230
> >
> > what's another 40 packages?
>
> Argh !
>
>
> Exactly this brain damaged behaviour is why we have
> so many (useless mi
On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 10:32:41AM +0200, Michael Neuffer wrote:
> Exactly this brain damaged behaviour is why we have
> so many (useless mini)packages !
i don't think this is stupid. if I want one thing, I want
that one, and only that. using packages it's good, because I
can manage with the soft
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On Friday, 25. May 2001 10:32, Michael Neuffer wrote:
> What I oppose is stupid splits of packages and things like the
> 50th ICQ client.
Hmm, then why are so many "small" editors there? The first thing after a
standard debian install is to remove al
Quoting Rob Walker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
> > On Thu, 24 May 2001 20:23:35 -0500, Ben Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > said:
>
> Ben> Options are (1) release one huge-arse binary package; (2) release
> Ben> 39 packages, one for each theme; (3) release a moderate number of
> Ben> packages ea
> Is it generally possible (I know this is possible with sawfish) for the
> user to install a theme without root privileges? If so, then one big theme
> package is useful to allow a user to browse themes, select the one(s) they
> like, and copy it/them into an appropriate spot in their home direc
> Although best would be a KDE-theme installer. Are the themes
> available individually anywhere, in a format consistent enough for
> automating the debianization and installation?
By this do you mean an empty debian package whose configuration procedure is
to download themes and install them o
On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 01:19:41AM -0600, Bruce Sass wrote:
> On Thu, 24 May 2001, Rob Walker wrote:
>
> > > On Thu, 24 May 2001 20:23:35 -0500, Ben Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > said:
> >
> > Ben> Options are (1) release one huge-arse binary package; (2) release
> > Ben> 39 packages,
On Thu, 24 May 2001, Rob Walker wrote:
> > On Thu, 24 May 2001 20:23:35 -0500, Ben Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > said:
>
> Ben> Options are (1) release one huge-arse binary package; (2) release
> Ben> 39 packages, one for each theme; (3) release a moderate number of
> Ben> packages each c
> On Thu, 24 May 2001 20:23:35 -0500, Ben Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> said:
Ben> Options are (1) release one huge-arse binary package; (2) release
Ben> 39 packages, one for each theme; (3) release a moderate number of
Ben> packages each containing a few themes.
Ben> I am hesitant to do
On 24 May 2001 20:23:35 -0500, Ben Burton wrote:
>
> Hi. I'm about to submit an ITP for a set of KDE window decoration and widget
> themes and I'm trying to decide upon the best way to package them. They're
> all from the same author (part of a single large release with the same
> version num
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