On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 09:43:57PM +0200, Goswin Brederlow wrote:
> Why not allow Source only packages ?
That will win nothing. You can't use apt-get on them, have to rebuilt
and have them twice locally.
cu
Torsten
On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 11:00:14PM +0200, Torsten Landschoff wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 09:43:57PM +0200, Goswin Brederlow wrote:
> > Why not allow Source only packages ?
> That will win nothing. You can't use apt-get on them, have to rebuilt
> and have them twice locally.
$ apt-get source
> Philippe Troin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > 1) The way the Debian archive works requires the data to be stored
> > twice (source package and .deb).
>
> Why not allow Source only packages ?
Or have a small .deb which installs the data and the data as a
tar.gz/tar.bz2 file which is s
On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 11:37:06PM +0200, Petr Cech wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 07:10:09PM + , Zygo Blaxell wrote:
> > On 18 Oct 1999 18:16:58 -0700, Philippe Troin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [snip]
> > > 3) Where do we stop ? As someone says, there's nothing preventing
> > > me fro
On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 02:34:43PM +1000, Glenn McGrath wrote:
> Archive bloat i thought debian was about giving the user the choice of
> what they wanted rather them presenting them with subset of whats available.
> I feel silly even sugesting this, but why not have official binaries for
> oth
Hi,
> NO!! RFCs are *very* important when writing software. They are the
> standards upon which a large amount of free software is based and are
> absolutely crucial to developers. Why should they have to hunt the
> web for such stuff?
I think it's possible for _everyone_ to mirror (for exampl
On Wed, 20 Oct 1999 14:06:50 +1000, Anthony Towns
wrote:
>On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 11:00:14PM +0200, Torsten Landschoff wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 09:43:57PM +0200, Goswin Brederlow wrote:
>> > Why not allow Source only packages ?
>> That will win nothing. You can't use apt-get on them, hav
> Hi,
>
> > NO!! RFCs are *very* important when writing software. They are the
> > standards upon which a large amount of free software is based and are
> > absolutely crucial to developers. Why should they have to hunt the
> > web for such stuff?
>
> I think it's possible for _everyone_ to mi
On 19-Oct-99 Torsten Landschoff wrote:
> That will win nothing. You can't use apt-get on them, have to rebuilt
> and have them twice locally.
Yes, but the problem is the mirrors space, not the space on users disks.
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Christian Surchi, [EMAIL PROTECTED], www.firenze.linux.it/~csurchi
On 19-Oct-99 Goswin Brederlow wrote:
> Why not allow Source only packages ?
And use apt-get source.
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Christian Surchi, [EMAIL PROTECTED], www.firenze.linux.it/~csurchi
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Hi.
Is a digest version of this list wanted? Or do we want to wait
a couple of weeks before we do anything? I think we rather wait
a bit... the number of the project subscribers is 10 times the
number of the project subscribers, not counting the digest
version.
Alexander
Torsten Landschoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 09:43:57PM +0200, Goswin Brederlow wrote:
>
> > Why not allow Source only packages ?
>
> That will win nothing. You can't use apt-get on them, have to rebuilt
> and have them twice locally.
You could set the arch flag i
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