Re: Bug#39830: [PROPOSED]: get rid of undocumented(7) symlinks

1999-06-27 Thread Roland Rosenfeld
On Sun, 27 Jun 1999, Steve Greenland wrote: > The advantage of undocumented(7) is all the info is (supposedly) in > one place: "There is no man page for this program, Correct. I personally prefer to get a simple message about this instead of reading the same undocumented(7) every time, but this i

Re: /var/state?

1999-06-27 Thread Steve Greenland
On 27-Jun-99, 15:53 (CDT), Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So using /var/state is actually discouraged? > Since it is not mentioned in the current FHS 2.1 draft (http://www.pathname.com/fhs/fhs-2.1-pre-02.tar.gz), and the description of /var/lib seems to encompass the possible uses of

Re: /var/state?

1999-06-27 Thread Roland Rosenfeld
Marc Haber schrieb am Sonntag, den 27. Juni 1999: > /var/state isn't in the fsstnd, yet it exists on Debian slink. Is > there a text available that states what belongs into /var/state vs. > /var/lib ("application state information")? /var/state was introduced in FHS 2.0:

Re: /var/state?

1999-06-27 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 27 Jun 1999 15:28:55 -0500, you wrote: >On 27-Jun-99, 10:00 (CDT), Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> /var/state isn't in the fsstnd, yet it exists on Debian slink. Is >> there a text available that states what belongs into /var/state vs. >> /var/lib ("application state information")

Re: /var/state?

1999-06-27 Thread Steve Greenland
On 27-Jun-99, 10:00 (CDT), Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > /var/state isn't in the fsstnd, yet it exists on Debian slink. Is > there a text available that states what belongs into /var/state vs. > /var/lib ("application state information")? > /var/state was originally part of th

Re: Bug#39830: debian-policy: [PROPOSED]: get rid of undocumented(7) symlinks

1999-06-27 Thread Steve Greenland
On 23-Jun-99, 16:56 (CDT), Chris Waters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The new proposal addresses this. It requires that the maintainer > describe the situation wrt man pages in TODO.Debian. This won't keep people from filing duplicate bugs, as it requires the person to take a second step to ac

Re: Menu-2.0, optimized menu tree, hints

1999-06-27 Thread Steve Greenland
On 19-Jun-99, 16:16 (CDT), Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well the alternative that has been brought up before is to make everything > use a deeper tree (like Apps/Editors/Big/Emacsen), and have menu > automatically collapse the tree to Apps/Editors on your system with 2 editors > and kee

/var/state?

1999-06-27 Thread Marc Haber
Hi! /var/state isn't in the fsstnd, yet it exists on Debian slink. Is there a text available that states what belongs into /var/state vs. /var/lib ("application state information")? Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber