On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 01:02:26PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
> > There are still several scripts in Debian which depend on /usr/bin/nawk.
> > All of them should work with /usr/bin/awk.
>
> So I guess we should require them to be /usr/bin/awk.
Yes, tha
On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 01:02:26PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
> > > The same way we say "(POSIX) shell scripts should use /bin/sh and not
> > > /bin/bash" we should probably say "awk scripts should use /usr/bin/awk,
> > > not /usr/bin/nawk".
> >
> > Are there a significant number of pieces of sof
On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 01:32:16PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
> > > I've just read through the virtual packages list, and there's barely a
> > > virtual package which either doesn't do this already, for example awk
> > > says:
> > > awk
On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 01:32:16PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
> > I've just read through the virtual packages list, and there's barely a
> > virtual package which either doesn't do this already, for example awk
> > says:
> > awk Anything providing suitable /usr/bin/{awk,nawk} (
On Wed, 24 May 2000, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 10:04:04AM -0700, Chris Waters wrote:
> > My original statement: "we should document the APIs provided by
> > virtual packages."
> >
> > My modified statement in light of all the feedback I've gotten: "we
> > should document what
> On 17 May 2000 10:04:04 -0700, Chris Waters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
Chris> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carl R. Witty) writes:
>> Chris Waters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> > Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> > > But a package which Recommends: www-browser needs no standard
>> > >
On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 10:04:04AM -0700, Chris Waters wrote:
> My original statement: "we should document the APIs provided by
> virtual packages."
>
> My modified statement in light of all the feedback I've gotten: "we
> should document whatever common interface (including none) that our
> virtu
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carl R. Witty) writes:
> Chris Waters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > But a package which Recommends: www-browser needs no standard
> > > interface whatsoever, for example.
> > I believe they all fit this template:
> > comman
Chris Waters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > On Sat, May 13, 2000 at 01:05:42PM -0700, Chris Waters wrote:
> > > Two things I'd like to see done with the virtual package system:
>
> > > 1. Define APIs for all virtual packages.
>
> > > 2. Tie virtu
Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Also there's one little difference between packages needing
> www-browser and mp3-decoder: a lot of packages ship HTML and by
> depending (any sort of dep) on www-browser they signal the user
> he'll need a program to see the text. However, there aren't a
On 14-May-00, 13:56 (CDT), Chris Waters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > But a package which Recommends: www-browser needs no standard
> > interface whatsoever, for example.
>
> I believe they all fit this template:
>
> command-line:
>
But a l
On Sun, May 14, 2000 at 11:56:29AM -0700, Chris Waters wrote:
> > But a package which Recommends: www-browser needs no standard
> > interface whatsoever, for example.
>
> I believe they all fit this template:
>
> command-line:
Also there's one little difference between packages needing www
Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sat, May 13, 2000 at 01:05:42PM -0700, Chris Waters wrote:
> > Two things I'd like to see done with the virtual package system:
> > 1. Define APIs for all virtual packages.
> > 2. Tie virtual packages to the alternatives system, somehow.
> > The
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