Re: Space on 6.2 CD

2000-03-04 Thread Ivan Jager
JF Martinez wrote: > Now what are the common points between all Unixes: > 1) VI is the standard editor Acording to http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed.msg.html ed is the standard text editor. :-) -- Ivan Jager -- To unsubscribe: mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: Space on 6.2 CD

2000-03-04 Thread JF Martinez
> > > > > This is the second time today that the VI people are playing editosrs > > wars. This is supposed to be forbidden in this list, even for RedHat > > persnnel. > > > > Please stop this. > > geeze, emacs users are so touchy ;) > Emacs users are not touchy but Linux activists are. Now w

Re: Space on 6.2 CD

2000-03-03 Thread John Summerfield
> There certainly is, however I am a vi user and never use these tools > if I can avoid it. This raises the question of what do people want on > the CD, certainly "power users' will not even want X. So a solution You have a strange idea of 'power user.' A good GUI on a good workstation will ma

Re: Space on 6.2 CD

2000-03-03 Thread John Summerfield
> > It would require very little code to put the docs on an additional CD > and fire anaconda at first reboot in order it prompts for the second > CD Thuis would allow by the same occasion to configure some > peripherals or daemons who cannot be configured during regular > installation. Why on

Re: Space on 6.2 CD

2000-03-03 Thread John Summerfield
> On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Alex Kanavin wrote: > > > > My guess is that most people install the stuff, and never read it > > > or even know it is there anyways... I hope that RedHat at least > > > continues to package the HOWTO's, etc.. and put them in > > > powertools, or a "redhat-docs" dir on the

Re: Space on 6.2 CD

2000-03-03 Thread Kevin Waterson
JF Martinez wrote: > > This is the second time today that the VI people are playing editosrs > wars. This is supposed to be forbidden in this list, even for RedHat > persnnel. > > Please stop this. geeze, emacs users are so touchy ;) Kevin -- To unsubscribe: mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Space on 6.2 CD

2000-03-03 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Matt Wilson wrote: >Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 16:35:22 -0500 >From: Matt Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Mike A. Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Space on 6.2 CD > >Everything that was removed will be on a 3rd "

Re: Space on 6.2 CD

2000-03-03 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Sat, 4 Mar 2000, JF Martinez wrote: >Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2000 00:52:12 +0100 >From: JF Martinez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Space on 6.2 CD > > >> >> No. Too many of us are using them. (Well, I personally am all for killing

Re: Space on 6.2 CD

2000-03-03 Thread Alan Cox
> wars. This is supposed to be forbidden in this list, even for RedHat s/RedHat/Red Hat/ -- To unsubscribe: mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: Space on 6.2 CD

2000-03-03 Thread JF Martinez
> > No. Too many of us are using them. (Well, I personally am all for killing > Emacs (who needs anything but vi???), but... ;) ) > This is the second time today that the VI people are playing editosrs wars. This is supposed to be forbidden in this list, even for RedHat persnnel. Please stop

Re: Space on 6.2 CD

2000-03-03 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Sat, 4 Mar 2000, Kevin Waterson wrote: >> I *highly* doubt that they would do that. Too many UNIX heads >> out there rely on that. > >There certainly is, however I am a vi user and never use these tools >if I can avoid it. This raises the question of what do people want on >the CD, certainly

Re: Space on 6.2 CD

2000-03-03 Thread Matt Wilson
Everything that was removed will be on a 3rd "Documentation CD," and also available for download. Matt -- To unsubscribe: mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: Space on 6.2 CD

2000-03-03 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Alex Kanavin wrote: > > My guess is that most people install the stuff, and never read it > > or even know it is there anyways... I hope that RedHat at least > > continues to package the HOWTO's, etc.. and put them in > > powertools, or a "redhat-docs" dir on the site. I'd s

Re: Space on 6.2 CD

2000-03-03 Thread JF Martinez
> > On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Mike A. Harris wrote: > > > My guess is that most people install the stuff, and never read it > > or even know it is there anyways... I hope that RedHat at least > > continues to package the HOWTO's, etc.. and put them in > > powertools, or a "redhat-docs" dir on the sit

Re: Space on 6.2 CD

2000-03-03 Thread Steve Dixon
dont let linuxone hear you. "James M. Rogers" wrote: > > Here is an opportunity for an enterprising person to create an addon > product that adds all the old stuff back into the redhat distribution. > > Actually, people could start entire lines of CDROM's that add specific > functionallity for

Re: Space on 6.2 CD

2000-03-03 Thread James M. Rogers
Here is an opportunity for an enterprising person to create an addon product that adds all the old stuff back into the redhat distribution. Actually, people could start entire lines of CDROM's that add specific functionallity for specific "niche" users. 3D modelling, Animation, Graphics Design,

Re: Space on 6.2 CD

2000-03-03 Thread Kevin Waterson
"Mike A. Harris" wrote: > > I *highly* doubt that they would do that. Too many UNIX heads > out there rely on that. There certainly is, however I am a vi user and never use these tools if I can avoid it. This raises the question of what do people want on the CD, certainly "power users' will no

Re: Space on 6.2 CD

2000-03-03 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Alex Kanavin wrote: >> My guess is that most people install the stuff, and never read it >> or even know it is there anyways... I hope that RedHat at least >> continues to package the HOWTO's, etc.. and put them in >> powertools, or a "redhat-docs" dir on the site. I'd still

Re: Space on 6.2 CD

2000-03-03 Thread Alan Shutko
Alex Kanavin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Another chance to switch to multi-CD distribution missed. RedHat must do > something about this or someday we'll see TeX and Emacs being removed in > favour of KOffice and KDevelop. That's ok. I don't trust RH to install Emacs for me[1], and TeX Live

Re: Space on 6.2 CD

2000-03-03 Thread Alex Kanavin
On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Mike A. Harris wrote: > My guess is that most people install the stuff, and never read it > or even know it is there anyways... I hope that RedHat at least > continues to package the HOWTO's, etc.. and put them in > powertools, or a "redhat-docs" dir on the site. I'd still l

Re: Space on 6.2 CD

2000-03-03 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Alex Kanavin wrote: >Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 14:11:17 +0300 (MSK) >From: Alex Kanavin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Space on 6.2 CD > >Apparently people at RedHat solved the space problem by removing all >HOWTOs, FAQs and LD

Space on 6.2 CD

2000-03-03 Thread Alex Kanavin
Apparently people at RedHat solved the space problem by removing all HOWTOs, FAQs and LDP docs. That saved about 80 megabytes. But are these docs gone completely (leave english howtos at least, please!) or will they appear somewhere else? Also, I was surprised not to see xanim anymore. Why? And, f