Re: Some thoughts for Debian.

1997-01-22 Thread Matt Kracht
On Mon, 20 Jan 1997, John Goerzen wrote: > > I think if debian is going to succeed, it's going to have to be reduced > > to a standard set of "core" applications that will make up the "offical" > > I *very strongly* disagree. One of the things that brought me to Debian in > the first place, a

Re: A proposal to improve dselect

1997-01-10 Thread Matt Kracht
On Thu, 9 Jan 1997, Ralph Winslow wrote: > This seems easily addressed by honoring the Users' EDITOR environment > variable setting, so why not? This may already be implemented, so forgive me if I haven't researched dselect enough: how about using a config file where we can remap all the keys

Re: Disk partitioning - recommended sizes

1997-01-09 Thread Matt Kracht
On Thu, 9 Jan 1997, Ronald van Loon wrote: > This leaves about 2.0 Gb for the /, /usr, /var/spool and swap partitions. I > have another 2.0 Gb disk and I am contemplating to put the swap partition on > there (for load balancing). > > I estimate a need for about 250 Mb spool. Partitioning is k