> "Adam" == Adam P Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Adam> Mind you, I think splitting docs is generally a good idea,
I'd often like to install just the docs so I can find out what
something is, and read about it a little to decide whether I need it
or not.
On Fri, 20 Feb 1998, Adam P. Harris wrote:
> [You (Bill Leach)]
> >Has the idea been discussed about seperating out more of the
> >documentation packages from the executable packages?
> >
> >It has seemed to me that it would be a great benefit to many sysadms if
> >most packages like smail, sendma
Both of the suggested reasons exist for my situation (I have machines
that can't really afford the space and I have machines that could
'serve' the documentation for software that they don't have installed).
OTOH, I also appreciate the potential problems and the general increase
in complexity that
[You (Bill Leach)]
>Has the idea been discussed about seperating out more of the
>documentation packages from the executable packages?
>
>It has seemed to me that it would be a great benefit to many sysadms if
>most packages like smail, sendmail, qmail, apache, etc. had their
>documentation in sep
On Sat, 21 Feb 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> > on a hamm system? I currently only have a bo system, should I apply for an
> > account on master and do the package generate their? (is it a hamm system)
> > Or should I wait until boot disks for hamm become available?
Gawk. I meant of course "do the
On Sat, Feb 21, 1998 at 12:08:45AM +1100, Anand Kumria wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Feb 1998, Joey Hess wrote:
> Okay, I've managed to build my .deb and the related source packages.
> Something that I am confused about is the original source tar.gz - I
> initalliy had mtr-0.14.orig.tar.gz (which extracts in
On Fri, 20 Feb 1998, Joey Hess wrote:
> Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> > Yes that sounds useful. I know that your pdmenu supports popping
> > up a box to ask for parameters; I would assume that there's nothing
> > in the Debian menu system to tell the menu system to do this though
> > because it would no
Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> Yes that sounds useful. I know that your pdmenu supports popping
> up a box to ask for parameters; I would assume that there's nothing
> in the Debian menu system to tell the menu system to do this though
> because it would not be supported by the various X window managers
>
On Fri, Feb 20, 1998 at 12:06:32AM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
> The only problem is, if you just run mtr with no parameters, you don't get
> the window at all. So to appear on the menu system, you'd need something
> like "mtr localhost", which pops up a useless mtr to localhost, but you can
> then cha
Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> Is this for the menu system? This sort of tool tends to be command line
> driven (is mtr?); do these really belong in the menu system? None of
> my command line driven stuff have menu files (guavac, atp, ...)
The interesting thing about mtr is that the X interface to it cou
Has the idea been discussed about seperating out more of the
documentation packages from the executable packages?
It has seemed to me that it would be a great benefit to many sysadms if
most packages like smail, sendmail, qmail, apache, etc. had their
documentation in seperate packages that were s
On Thu, Feb 19, 1998 at 07:07:17PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote:
> > Also what is the best place to put this kind of program? Apps/System,
> > Apps/Network or Apps/Misc?
> I'd suggest Apps/Network
Is this for the menu system? This sort of tool tends to be command line
driven (is mtr?); do these rea
Anand Kumria wrote:
> - should it be installed in /usr/sbin (it is a set-uid network diag
> program)
Probably, I'm not 100% sure.
> - is the man page regarded as architecture independant?
Well, it is architecture independant, but we don't split out seperate
packages for things like a single man
On Fri, 20 Feb 1998, Anand Kumria wrote:
> I've decided to try my hand at being a debian developer; and have picked
> mtr (from the orphaned list) as something to try. Some questions:
>
> - - should it be installed in /usr/sbin (it is a set-uid network diag
> program)
I've never seen the point i
On Fri, Feb 20, 1998 at 03:52:56AM +1100, Anand Kumria wrote:
> I've decided to try my hand at being a debian developer; and have picked
> mtr (from the orphaned list) as something to try. Some questions:
>
> - - should it be installed in /usr/sbin (it is a set-uid network diag
> program)
Is it
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I've decided to try my hand at being a debian developer; and have picked
mtr (from the orphaned list) as something to try. Some questions:
- - should it be installed in /usr/sbin (it is a set-uid network diag
program)
- - is the man page regarded as architectur
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