I do not think this is an improvement. The main goal for menu items is
(should be) clarity, not 100% grammatical or spelling correctness.
Conservation of screen real estate is an important secondary goal, and
should not be sacrificed to linguistic perfection.
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least, you'd need to (potentially) use _both_. Using only
the debian package info would break asking about locally installed
modules. Are such complications worth it? I think not. I agree with
Michael, the .packlist files should be included.
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d the latest debiandoc, and built it - the result is fine in
lynx
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EngSoc adopts market economy: cheap is wasteful, efficient is expensive.
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Andrew> should revert to XCU5, thereby accomodating the historical
Andrew> practice of BSD, and that this be a candidate change for TC1.
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EngSoc adopts market economy:
gical implication, and he
questioned (quite rightly) whether that relation between the logical
parts actually took place.
There'll always be wars and war crimes, does that mean we should stop
trying to put in place laws forbidding them?
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le /bin/sh
/bin/sh: symbolic link to /etc/alternatives/sh
kronstadt:~$ file /etc/alternatives/sh
/etc/alternatives/sh: symbolic link to /bin/ash
kronstadt:~$
(I installed my own local alternative for this).
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think about that?
Yes, I think this makes sense:
depends recommends
libfoo-java -> java-common -> java-virtual-machine
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EngSoc adopts ma
already not a huge enough amount?
Just asking,
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In his own soul a man bears the source
from which he draws all his sorrows and his joys.
Sophocles.
readreadme$$-$package' EXIT INT QUIT TERM HUP
dpkg --extract $deb readreadme$$-$package
readme=`ls readreadme$$-$package/usr/share/doc/$package/README.[Dd]ebian*
2>/dev/null`
if [ "x$readme" != "x" ]; then
zless $readme
fi
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from text mode, and too many
debconf items (debconf/priority among them) have help text that doesn't
fit on my screen (112x40).
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The easiest way to win an argument: ridicule your opponent's basic
assumptions by stating their negation and pos
s matters only the first time X is installed, anyway
(afterwards it's trivial to simply upgrade the _existing_ server).
The first time, debconf's answer will be used by the setup script.
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The easiest way to win an argument: ridicule your oppone
my
video card is based on the S3V, which is officially supported by XFree
v4. So I'd expect any automatic method of selecting the X server to
go for xserver-xfree86.
But, with this server (and yes, I tried both 4.[01]) I keep
experiencing minor pixel corruption with scrolling. So, I _want_ (and
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