Re: Some new largish packages: please comment

1999-01-14 Thread Joey Hess
Richard B. Kreckel wrote: > I am about to build some packages of astronomical databases to be used > with Elwood Downey's XEphem, packaged by Frank Jordan for slink. Since > some of these databases are quite large I would like to hear what people > think about a possible split-up. The packages will

RE: Some new largish packages: please comment

1999-01-14 Thread Darren Benham
On 14-Jan-99 Richard B. Kreckel wrote: > I am about to build some packages of astronomical databases to be used > with Elwood Downey's XEphem, packaged by Frank Jordan for slink. Since > some of these databases are quite large I would like to hear what people > think about a possible split-up. The

Re: Some new largish packages: please comment

1999-01-14 Thread Peter S Galbraith
> To wrap things up, there are 5 options: > a) 160M GSC + 8.7M asteroids + 4.3M PPM + 4.1M others > b) 160M GSC + 8.7M asteroids + 8.4M PPM and others<-- nice > c) 160M GSC + 17.1M other catalogs > d) 4.3M PPM + 4.1M others > e) 8.4M PPM and others > of which I prefer the sec

Some new largish packages: please comment

1999-01-14 Thread Richard B. Kreckel
Hi; I am about to build some packages of astronomical databases to be used with Elwood Downey's XEphem, packaged by Frank Jordan for slink. Since some of these databases are quite large I would like to hear what people think about a possible split-up. The packages will be part of non-free, the mai

Re: x/app-defaults, how to handle them correctly?

1999-01-14 Thread Olaf Stetzer
Adrian Bridgett schrieb: > > On Wed, Jan 13, 1999 at 09:52:58AM +0100, Olaf Stetzer wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I am working on the package slab (harddisk-recording) > > which is an engine with tcl-frontend. The program is started > > by the following wrapper: > > ---

Re: x/app-defaults, how to handle them correctly?

1999-01-14 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Wed, Jan 13, 1999 at 09:52:58AM +0100, Olaf Stetzer wrote: > Hello all, > > I am working on the package slab (harddisk-recording) > which is an engine with tcl-frontend. The program is started > by the following wrapper: > > #!/bin/bash > # > # The "star