additional virtual packages for kde

1997-11-23 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
i generate a .deb verion of kde, and kde does the same. to seperate them, i use two packages : a) debian-kde.deb-package b) kde-kde.deb-package all my packages provide: a), suggests: a) and conflicts: b) please register these packages in the virtual package list. andreas

Re: x-game in /usr/X11R6 or in /usr/games?

1997-11-23 Thread Christian Schwarz
On Wed, 19 Nov 1997, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Tue, Nov 18, 1997 at 12:22:56PM -0500, Mark W. Eichin wrote: > > > > > I think that a seperate tree for games is a bit discrimating. > > > > Yep! :-) It's traditional, as well, mostly I suspect so that (for > > example) overenthusiastic admins

Re: Goals and portability

1997-11-23 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Mark W. Eichin: > >> From the Debian FAQ: > >> 4.2. How source code compatible is Debian with other Unix systems? > > So what? [ ... ] At least, this clearly contradicts that "There is no absolute requirement that anything we do be compatible with any particul

Re: Goals and portability

1997-11-23 Thread Mark W. Eichin
>> - - From the Debian FAQ: >> 4.2. How source code compatible is Debian with other Unix systems? So what? In the section you quoted, note the mention of POSIX.1 -- and the fact that POSIX.1 itself is a *programming interface* document, not a *systems integration* document. It doesn't even admi

Re: bash should not be essential

1997-11-23 Thread Mark W. Eichin
> Do you still think that "the use of { } makes the rules files clearer and I'd just like to request that people stop making the same mistake that deb-check does... Please abbreviate this construct to {,} but *no less than that*. It's legitimate, even *necessary* in some contexts, to use { } in