On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 08:25:56PM +0200, Sami Dalouche wrote:
>
> Thank you very much for all your answers. I didn't imagine this as hard as
> it is and didn't see the dangerous aspect of it.
> As a result, I will wait a bit before beginning so difficult and dangerous
> software like this.
> Bu
On Sat, Aug 28, 1999 at 06:35:48PM -0500, David Blackman wrote:
> I came up with a better idea (I think).
OK, I hope.
> file, we all love file, right? file has a database of what various file
> types look like, so it will tell you if text is C code, html, text, a
> staticly linked file, or whate
On Sat, 28 Aug 1999, Seth R Arnold wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 28, 1999 at 08:08:16PM -0500, David Blackmad wrote:
> > I thought of this, heck what about an executable
> > bash, tcsh, kernel-source, gdb...
>
> Heh heh -- I didn't even think about executables. Of course, for some java
> or other binfmt
On Sat, Aug 28, 1999 at 08:08:16PM -0500, David Blackmad wrote:
> I thought of this, heck what about an executable
> bash, tcsh, kernel-source, gdb...
Heh heh -- I didn't even think about executables. Of course, for some java
or other binfmt binaries, that might be sotr of nice.
> >
> > But,
On Sat, 28 Aug 1999, Seth R Arnold wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 28, 1999 at 06:35:48PM -0500, David Blackman wrote:
> > I came up with a better idea (I think).
> [...]
> > Get ready:
> > 2 programs filer & apt-get-filer
> [...]
>
> You know, this idea isn't bad :) I could honestly see this thing
> worki
On Sat, Aug 28, 1999 at 06:35:48PM -0500, David Blackman wrote:
> I came up with a better idea (I think).
[...]
> Get ready:
> 2 programs filer & apt-get-filer
[...]
You know, this idea isn't bad :) I could honestly see this thing
working out, though there would be some pathelogical cases..
$ fi
I came up with a better idea (I think).
file, we all love file, right? file has a database of what various file
types look like, so it will tell you if text is C code, html, text, a
staticly linked file, or whatever. file rocks.
All file is: a frontend to a database of file types.
Get ready:
2
On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 01:11:24PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 01:19:56PM -0500, Ashley Clark wrote:
> > On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Sami Dalouche wrote:
> > > I would like to know if there's a possibility with apt (or something else)
> > > to do the same that windows/Office 2000.
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On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Seth R Arnold wrote:
> Paul -- such a system sort of exists -- the popularity contest
> package, which reports via email the most commonly used packages. I
> haven't a clue how that thing works, I haven't looked into its source
> code yet; h
On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 10:08:25AM +0300, Paul Huygen wrote:
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> I can imagine another philosophy for automatic package installing. I
> am sure that many people (I myself for instance) have installed many
> more packages than they actually use. For that case I can imagine a
> utility that remember
On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 10:08:25AM +0300, Paul Huygen wrote
> John Pearson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > [objections for auto-installing Debian packages when a user types a
> > command from a package that has not yet been installed. One of the
> > objections is, that package installation ought
John Pearson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [objections for auto-installing Debian packages when a user types a
> command from a package that has not yet been installed. One of the
> objections is, that package installation ought to be a task of the
> manager of the computer system and not of an ord
On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 01:11:24PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote
> On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 01:19:56PM -0500, Ashley Clark wrote:
> > On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Sami Dalouche wrote:
> > > I would like to know if there's a possibility with apt (or something else)
> > > to do the same that windows/Office 2000.
>
> You could just get really spiffy and rewrite glibc's exec*() calls to do
> all of this. Then when you execute a command as root, like accidentally
> typing ssh instead of sh, then all of the sudden you have an import/export
> restricted piece of software automatically installed on your system
On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 02:13:59AM +0200, Sami Dalouche wrote:
> I would like to know if there's a possibility with apt (or something else)
> to do the same that windows/Office 2000.
> It installs automaticly new software from the CD when you want to start a
> non-installed function.
It would ha
On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 01:19:56PM -0500, Ashley Clark wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Sami Dalouche wrote:
> > I would like to know if there's a possibility with apt (or something else)
> > to do the same that windows/Office 2000.
> > It installs automaticly new software from the CD when you want t
On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Sami Dalouche wrote:
> I would like to know if there's a possibility with apt (or something else)
> to do the same that windows/Office 2000.
> It installs automaticly new software from the CD when you want to start a
> non-installed function.
>
> It could be great if under De
On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 02:13:59AM +0200, Sami Dalouche wrote:
> I would like to know if there's a possibility with apt (or something else)
> to do the same that windows/Office 2000.
> It installs automaticly new software from the CD when you want to start a
> non-installed function.
>
> It could
I would like to know if there's a possibility with apt (or something else)
to do the same that windows/Office 2000.
It installs automaticly new software from the CD when you want to start a
non-installed function.
It could be great if under Debian, when we type a command that don't exist,
it woul
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