Re: Architecture strings Was: [rms@gnu.org: Re: PATCH: gcc-3.1/criteria.html]

2002-05-29 Thread Jonathan Walther
What is an architecture string, anyway? How does one refer to Debian GNU/Hurd? How does one refer to Mastadon GNU/BSD? How does one refer to Darwin GNU/Mach? If someone can tell me the answer to those questions, I may be able to supply intelligent comments on the issue. In the meantime, consi

Re: missing FHS archives

2000-01-25 Thread Jonathan Walther
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- You could make a task- package to do this. That would be cool. Then people could try it both ways and see which they prefer. On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote: > I only said : `one will be able to do so', not : `it will be our default' > This real

Re: missing FHS archives

2000-01-24 Thread Jonathan Walther
ear mixing of function. Or I could just have FreeBSD braindamage. Forgive the rambling; I just started fbsd kernel hacking and am finding it much easier to get into than the linux kernel. Jonathan On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, Ben Collins wrote: > On Sun, Jan 23, 2000 at 06:48:56PM -0800, Jonathan

missing FHS archives

2000-01-24 Thread Jonathan Walther
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Web searches don't seem to pull up any archives of the fhs-discuss mailing list. Is this some private secret list or something? I thought this was an "open" process? Jonathan -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBOIu9mcK9HT/Yf

Re: Custom undocumented(7)s are just as bad.

2000-01-24 Thread Jonathan Walther
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- So what will it take to get the FHS ammended to add libexec in? It seems like a major oversight. On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, Joey Hess wrote: > Jonathan Walther wrote: > > I think its time we created /usr/libexec as all real Unixes do instead of >

Re: Custom undocumented(7)s are just as bad.

2000-01-24 Thread Jonathan Walther
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I think its time we created /usr/libexec as all real Unixes do instead of an endless succession of /usr/lib/program-foo directories. On 23 Jan 2000, Chris Waters wrote: > OTOH, you can write a quick-and-dirty man page that says, "this > program is not intended t

Re: policy summary

2000-01-05 Thread Jonathan Walther
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- So you are saying that packers are omitting an EXISTING manpage, and instead putting a link to the undocumented.7 page? You are right, this IS a bug, and yes, its the kind that is unlikely to be found for quite a while. However, what about the more common case