Re: cleaning up our task packages

2000-12-08 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 01:46:11PM -0800, David Schleef wrote: > > *THIS* is where the task- system will help new users -- competent or > > not. It allows Debian to help people choose, when they don't know what > > is best -- not when they are too stupid to know what is best. > > If this is really

Re: Proposal of new group

1999-10-14 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, Tomasz Wêgrzanowski wrote: [ snip ] : > >This group would be very useful for desktop machines for people who : > >set computer on (via switch), login as common user and do what they have to : > >and then stop the computer via command (`halt' or `shutdown -h now') : > >or

Re: Bug#43483: [proposal] section 3.2 should not allow static user ids (except root=0).

1999-08-25 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote: : Package: debian-policy : Version: web page 1999-8-25 : : Debian allows static user ids. This is not a good idea. : the code necessary to use static id's is pretty small ^^ dynamic, surely? -- Nathan Norman

Re: old releases

1998-07-30 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 30 Jul 1998, Justin Maurer wrote: : : it has come to my attention everything bo is gone (tm). : while i realize the difficulty of maintaining older distributions, i DO : think they should at *least* be available for download. : : when corresponding with other developers, basically all of