Re: Vlc won't play DVD's on Ubuntu, or Kubuntu Intrepid

2009-02-08 Thread Marius Gedminas
On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 06:23:40PM +0100, Nigel Henry wrote: > I have vlc installed on both my Ubuntu, and Kubuntu Intrepid 8.10 installs, > but vlc will not play dvd's. It finds the optical drive ok, and I get the > menu up for the dvd, but only about a half second of sound, and video play, > t

incapable and obsolete APT / Aptitude replacement

2009-02-08 Thread kc.ubuntu.cz
I would like to ask you a little bit controversal question. As a user I miss in ubuntu a powerfull dependency solver. You can read many discussions all over the web, where users are threatened that RPM causes dependency hell. In my experience it's totaly impossible to manualy create dependecy he

Re: incapable and obsolete APT / Aptitude replacement

2009-02-08 Thread Surfaz Gemon Meme
> Both of Zypper and SMART has also capabilities to manage repositories and > keys, which is something APT can't. So What are your opoinions of implementing > > 1) Zypper to ubuntu Zypper supports different formats, the same as Libzypp. Currently there are: * Repositories YaST2 (which ar

incapable and obsolete APT / Aptitude replacement: part 2

2009-02-08 Thread kc.ubuntu.cz
I also found some information, that atempt to make SMART a default package manager was suggested some years ago: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SmartPackageManager I did not found, how to make a response in thread. This is my first mailing list, and after some while searching, i gave it up. Sorry.

RE: incapable and obsolete APT / Aptitude replacement

2009-02-08 Thread Guy Wire
Is there any interest in Nix? http://nixos.org/ I really don't know much of anything as to how it works, but it seemed to me an intriguing concept. ~ imag1narynumber > Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2009 19:35:03 +0100 > From: kc.ubuntu...@centrum.cz > To: ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com > Subject:

Re: incapable and obsolete APT / Aptitude replacement

2009-02-08 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
On Sun, 2009-02-08 at 19:35 +0100, kc.ubuntu...@centrum.cz wrote: > I would like to ask you a little bit controversal question. As a user I miss > in ubuntu a powerfull dependency solver. You can read many discussions all > over the web, where users are threatened that RPM causes dependency hell.

Re: Ubuntu and language packs

2009-02-08 Thread Martin Pitt
Hello Surfaz, Surfaz Gemon Meme [2009-02-03 0:06 +0100]: > * Why Ubuntu install English support by default, although I chose > Spanish support? AFAIR this is primarily for historical reasons. In fact I don't see a lot of reasons to install all English translations/support packages by default, ex

Re: Ubuntu and language packs

2009-02-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 11:56:50PM +0100, Martin Pitt wrote: > Surfaz Gemon Meme [2009-02-03 0:06 +0100]: > > * Why Ubuntu install English support by default, although I chose > > Spanish support? > > AFAIR this is primarily for historical reasons. In fact I don't see a > lot of reasons to instal

RE: incapable and obsolete APT / Aptitude replacement

2009-02-08 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Sun, 8 Feb 2009 16:59:13 -0500 Guy Wire wrote: > >Is there any interest in Nix? > >http://nixos.org/ > >I really don't know much of anything as to how it works, but it seemed to me an intriguing concept. > There was some discussion about recently. IIRC, the conclusion was that it was an in

Re: incapable and obsolete APT / Aptitude replacement

2009-02-08 Thread Tobias Nissen
Guy Wire wrote: > Is there any interest in Nix? > > http://nixos.org/ > > I really don't know much of anything as to how it works, but it > seemed to me an intriguing concept. This has been discussed on debian-devel some time ago: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/12/msg01007.html sig

Re: Ubuntu and language packs

2009-02-08 Thread Surfaz Gemon Meme
Ok, I understand, but what about these packages? myspell-en-au myspell-en-gb myspell-en-za openoffice.org-help-en-gb openoffice.org-l10n-en-gb openoffice.org-l10n-en-za openoffice.org-thesaurus-en-au thunderbird-locale-en-gb wbritish You need to have English support in 2 types (UK and US) of Engl

Re: Ubuntu and language packs

2009-02-08 Thread Martin Pitt
Surfaz Gemon Meme [2009-02-09 0:56 +0100]: > Ok, I understand, but what about these packages? > > myspell-en-au > myspell-en-gb > myspell-en-za > openoffice.org-help-en-gb > openoffice.org-l10n-en-gb > openoffice.org-l10n-en-za > openoffice.org-thesaurus-en-au > thunderbird-locale-en-gb > wbritis