Re: Path modification

2001-01-12 Thread Brian May
> "Moshe" == Moshe Zadka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Moshe> U.that doesn't strike you as a weird error message? Moshe> Especially since the shell thinks "mh" *is* a valid Moshe> completion? I expect things that are valid completions to Moshe> work. I agree with this.

Re: Path modification

2001-01-12 Thread Moshe Zadka
On Fri, 12 Jan 2001 10:46:19 +, "Oliver Elphick" wrote: > Moshe Zadka wrote: > >OTOH, it bothers me that there are subdirectories under /usr/bin. > >E.g.: > >Try typing "mh" at the prompt for weird behaviour. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mh > bash: /usr/bin/mh: is a directory > [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Path modification

2001-01-12 Thread Britton
Ok. No need to get combative. If the admin saw the package, got interested, and installed it, the message *to the admin* seems potentially useful, since PATH is fundamental and mh requires an unusual change to work at all. Since debian ships things like mh-e, which usefully wrap and simplify nm

Re: Path modification

2001-01-12 Thread Chris Waters
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 01:29:04AM -0900, Britton wrote: > I don't think it would be excessively interactive for nmh > to somehow give a prompt notifying the user that the package requires > something that debian packages normally never need in order to work And how is it supposed to notify the us

Re: Path modification

2001-01-12 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jan 12, Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> What's weird about that? > >In tcsh: > >$ mh >/usr/bin/mh: Permission denied. So tcsh is broken. Big news. -- ciao, Marco

Re: Path modification

2001-01-12 Thread Colin Watson
Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >"Oliver Elphick" wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] mh >> bash: /usr/bin/mh: is a directory >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> What's weird about that? > >In tcsh: > >$ mh >/usr/bin/mh: Permission denied. Non-intuitive at best ... sounds like somebody who uses tcsh

Re: Path modification

2001-01-12 Thread Peter S Galbraith
"Oliver Elphick" wrote: > Moshe Zadka wrote: > >OTOH, it bothers me that there are subdirectories under /usr/bin. > >E.g.: > >Try typing "mh" at the prompt for weird behaviour. Me too. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mh > bash: /usr/bin/mh: is a directory > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > What's weird a

Re: Path modification

2001-01-12 Thread Oliver Elphick
Moshe Zadka wrote: >OTOH, it bothers me that there are subdirectories under /usr/bin. >E.g.: >Try typing "mh" at the prompt for weird behaviour. [EMAIL PROTECTED] mh bash: /usr/bin/mh: is a directory [EMAIL PROTECTED] What's weird about that? -- Oliver Elphick

Re: Path modification

2001-01-12 Thread Moshe Zadka
On Wed, 10 Jan 2001 17:41:43 -0800, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think others in this thread have provided suffucient arguments that > it's reasonable to expect mh users to do what they are used to doing to > get mh to work. OTOH, it bothers me that there are subdirectories under /usr

Re: [PROPOSAL] Allowing crypto in the main archive

2001-01-12 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 09:20:35AM -0800, Pete Lypkie wrote: > >Programs which use patented algorithms that have a restricted > >license must also be stored on "non-us", since the "non-us" server > >[...] > > By the way, what does "restricted license" mean in this context? > > Surely ev