Re: RFD: Essential packages, /, and /usr

2002-06-18 Thread Scott Dier
Manoj was wrong, you shouldn't be a lawyer, but a fiction writer. -- Scott Dier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.ringworld.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFD: Essential packages, /, and /usr

2002-06-18 Thread Scott Dier
g on here? If your on some crusade to forego common sense and choose the easiest way out, follow Manoj's suggestion to find another hobby. -- Scott Dier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.ringworld.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFD: Essential packages, /, and /usr

2002-06-18 Thread Scott Dier
stead.) -- Scott Dier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.ringworld.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re:Embedded platforms was: RFD: Essential packages, /, and /usr

2002-06-17 Thread Scott Dier
. If theres one thing I /HATE/ about rpm is file deps. Not me personally. I looked at the size (~19kB), and the feature set, and I saw can see scenarios in which a small network aware tool would be helpful in diagnosis (low probability ones, Or recovery from non-local tape dumps. --

Re: FHS vagueness on /opt

2002-01-18 Thread Scott Dier
do anything to this namespace. -- Scott Dier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.ringworld.org/ the desire for space travel is a metaphor for escape

Re: Should debian policy require to use debconf for postinst scripts?

2001-12-06 Thread Scott Dier
like this post-woody. -- Scott Dier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.ringworld.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] So I ran up to him, and the exchange went something like this: Me: Oh my god! You're Larry Niven! Him: Oh my god! You're Wil Wheaton! -Wil Wheaton, in a Slashdot interview

Re: REVISED PROPOSAL regarding DFSG 3 and 4, licenses, and modifiable text

2001-12-02 Thread Scott Dier
' behind it. But I didn't think we were packaging the current contents. Of course, the constitution is in the archive, but I dont think that prevents anyone from mangling it and giving it out. It isn't a constitution that *we* as a project will acknowledge as ours. Get your c

Re: REVISED PROPOSAL regarding DFSG 3 and 4, licenses, and modifiable text

2001-12-02 Thread Scott Dier
this issue further; however, the Free Software Foundation > appears to be unwilling to negotiate further on this matter (so please > don't bother them about it). > > I welcome feedback on this proposal, but please read the archives of > debian-legal as referenced above before respon

Re: REVISED PROPOSAL regarding DFSG 3 and 4, licenses, and modifiable text

2001-12-02 Thread Scott Dier
ts Free to stay Current is also a waste of time. So, the idea is that you either have non-free docs that dont go electronic, or you have Free docs that are maintainable and highly available with people buying the book because they want to either support the author or have a nice bound typeset versi

Re: REVISED PROPOSAL regarding DFSG 3 and 4, licenses, and modifiable text

2001-12-02 Thread Scott Dier
elines, where as the License is the focus, and not the contents. Pehraps lots of docs in main will be affected, but do we want to deticate space and bandwidth to non-free licensing, or does the cabal of publishing ideas limit us to thinking of documentation as Free? -- Scott Dier <[EMAIL PROTE

Bug#111839: PROPOSAL]: packages should be cross buildable

2001-09-10 Thread Scott Dier
ome packages. I think wishlist bugs against the packages that people are worried about in optional is ok, but to make it policy against all packages as a 'wishlist' bug-like-statement isn't cool. -- Scott Dier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.ringworld.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debconf dilemma

2001-09-02 Thread Scott Dier
reas either [a4|letter] would be better 'at the top' options. -- Scott Dier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.ringworld.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debconf dilemma

2001-09-02 Thread Scott Dier
es. (not per package, but as a all encompassing thing.) -- Scott Dier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.ringworld.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

debconf dilemma

2001-09-02 Thread Scott Dier
s littered with too much information that should really have been kept in documentation? Or should debconf be expanded into a tool to notify users of anything about what they are just about to choose/do? Thanks for any input. -- Scott Dier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http