Re: texlive

2007-04-26 Thread Micah Cowan
(sorry, accidentally sent to Matt, instead of to list.) Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 12:46:25PM -0700, Jordan Mantha wrote: >> Matt Zimmerman wrote: >> I'll have time to give him a hand). My concern was actually more dealing >> with the broken deps and invariable upgrade/install

Re: Proposal: Ubuntu Metadistribution

2007-04-26 Thread Micah Cowan
Gueven Bay wrote: > > Hello again , > >> On Sat, Apr 21, 2007 at 08:13:13AM +0200, Gueven Bay wrote: So what is it that you are proposing specifically? >>> What I want is to combine the worlds of several free operating systems with >>> the "philosophy" of Ubuntu: >>> ease of use, shiny ne

Re: texlive

2007-04-26 Thread Micah Cowan
Ming Hua wrote: > Also, adding a new list have the problem of making interested people > subscribe, set up filter, etc., while discussing on ubuntu-devel > requires no extra efforts. Hrm, good point. It'd be kind of nice if Launchpad automatically set up mail aliases or somesuch for its groups (on

Re: /usr/local/bin in $PATH in system scripts?

2007-05-10 Thread Micah Cowan
Fergal Daly wrote: > On 10/05/07, Forest Bond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 07:03:30PM -0400, Jim Doherty wrote: >>> Sorry, I have no idea what ubuntu policy is. But good defensive >>> scripting practice includes setting your $PATH to something safe. A >>> good script sho

Re: /usr/local/bin in $PATH in system scripts?

2007-05-10 Thread Micah Cowan
Ming Hua wrote: > On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 08:59:19AM -0700, Micah Cowan wrote: >> Fergal Daly wrote: >> >>> You are also implying that everything in /usr/bin that start with >>> >>> #! /usr/bin/{perl,python,...} >>> >>> is wrong and sho

Re: /usr/local/bin in $PATH in system scripts?

2007-05-10 Thread Micah Cowan
Ming Hua wrote: > On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 08:33:41PM -0700, Micah Cowan wrote: >> Ming Hua wrote: >>> For the sake of discussion, I think >>> >>> #!/usr/bin/env perl >>> >>> will pick up $PATH and is a valid #! line. I also believe this

Non-"vim-tiny"s don't have "compatible" vi's.

2007-05-15 Thread Micah Cowan
From https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vim/+bug/70569 submitted by Constantine Evans: - When invoked as vi, vim.tiny sources /etc/vim/vimrc.tiny, which sets compatible so that the vi command runs like the original vi. According to several people on -devel, this is the desired behaviour fo

RFC: alias tar="tar --backup" ?

2007-05-17 Thread Micah Cowan
A user, timothy, describing his difficulties at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/113154 describes his frustration as a new user, in discovering the hard way that tar's default is to overwrite existing files, causing him to lose important data. While I'm opposed to fixing the problem in ta

Re: RFC: alias tar="tar --backup" ?

2007-05-17 Thread Micah Cowan
Jan Claeys wrote: > Op donderdag 17-05-2007 om 15:18 uur [tijdzone -0700], schreef Micah > Cowan: >> A user, timothy, describing his difficulties at: >> >> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/113154 >> >> describes his frustration as a new user, in discoverin

Re: RFC: alias tar="tar --backup" ?

2007-05-17 Thread Micah Cowan
Onno Benschop wrote: > On 18/05/07 06:18, Micah Cowan wrote: >> A user, timothy, describing his difficulties at: > >> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/113154 > >> describes his frustration as a new user, in discovering the hard way >> that tar's

Re: RFC: alias tar="tar --backup" ?

2007-05-17 Thread Micah Cowan
Onno Benschop wrote: > From a usability perspective I would feel that you're changing expected > behaviour for existing users. I also note that there are no active > aliases in my current (Edgy) installation, and that the ones there are > commented out. Absolutely. The choice, as I see it, is mino

Re: RFC: alias tar="tar --backup" ?

2007-05-17 Thread Micah Cowan
Soren Hansen wrote: > On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 06:03:18PM -0700, Micah Cowan wrote: >>> A completely different approach could be that the calls that >>> actually write to a file check that the file does not exist. You >>> could activate this with a system-wide flag, b

Re: RFC: alias tar="tar --backup" ?

2007-05-17 Thread Micah Cowan
Scott Kitterman wrote: > On Thursday 17 May 2007 18:18, Micah Cowan wrote: >> A user, timothy, describing his difficulties at: >> >> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/113154 >> >> describes his frustration as a new user, in discovering the hard way >

Why is vim-gtk in universe?

2007-06-15 Thread Micah Cowan
The question I'd like to ask, is: why is vim-gtk in universe, whereas the other vims (which come from the very same source package) are in main? Part of the motivation for this question is bug 110152 in Malone: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vim/+bug/110152 In that bug, users report up

Re: Launchpad bug workflow change

2007-06-20 Thread Micah Cowan
Henrik Nilsen Omma wrote: > It turns out now, after having had more talks with the Launchpad team > that *restrictions will not be placed on In Progress, Fix Committed or > Fix Released* at this point. More work is needed to make that possible, > so it will not be included in this round. Doing t