[knghtbrd@earthlink.net: mp3 players, "free" or not]

1998-09-16 Thread Joseph Carter
This was meant to be in -policy and I typed -private because I was rather tired and stuff I guess. So, because of this, I'm forwarding my message. --- Begin Message --- severity 24011 important thanks x11ampg is one of those happy mp3 players we all know and love. Because of the patent issues, i

Re: Call for Seconds, Take II

1998-09-16 Thread Zed Pobre
On Tue, Sep 15, 1998 at 11:06:58AM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, Zed Pobre wrote: > > > + this string is reserved for the GNU Hurd operating system. > GNU/Hurd > > [ I think everyone will agree on this ]. Do I need to post another huge

Re: Comments on policy modifications

1998-09-16 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Hamish" == Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hamish> Consistency is to compress them -- we compress all other Hamish> documentation in /usr/doc except the copyright files. Not quite ;-). We definitely compress changelog.html. However, we still do not compress multi-file

Re: Call for seconds: Policy modifications

1998-09-16 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Enrique" == Enrique Zanardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Enrique> I guess I don't get it. If the information is vitally Enrique> important for the package to work, it's not enough to Enrique> display it, some action must be taken to be sure the package Enrique> is ready to work just afte

Re: Comments on policy modifications

1998-09-16 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Sep 13, 1998 at 09:30:41PM -0400, Justin Maurer wrote: > i would definitley prefer one or the other. i think non-compressed is the > way to go. consider this: slowe machines would crumble on unzipping larger > files, but newer machines would have plenty of space. i really think we > should

Re: Call for seconds: Policy modifications

1998-09-16 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Tue, Sep 15, 1998 at 03:11:28PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Hi, > >>"Enrique" == Enrique Zanardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Enrique> For the V.I.-info (not vitally important for the package to > Enrique> work), > > If it is not vitally important, it need not be displayedo the