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On 27 Jan 1999, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
You know, I seem to remember that there is another rather unpleasent
side-effect of rpath - it basically completely disables library searching
and thus disables LD_LIBRARY_PATH, once you have used rpath it is not easy
for a user replace that library
ftp1.us.debian.org now has everything to install all the gnome stuff
libgtop0 is there too.
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Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre
On 27 Jan 1999, Douglas Bates wrote:
Is there a chance that cron has switched to UTC?
It is a reported bug, if you stop and then restart cron it will go away,
you might want to not do that in case there is some way you can help Steve
find out what gives (ie wait for him to email you)
Jason
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write:
a) If you DO NEED a 128 MB swap file you are in serious trouble. You
should get more ram; the induced cost of extremely slow operation is much
higher than that of two lousy DIMMs.
Don't think so small. Some of us run quite big machines on Debian;
On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 12:58:41AM +, Steve McIntyre wrote:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write:
a) If you DO NEED a 128 MB swap file you are in serious trouble. You
should get more ram; the induced cost of extremely slow operation is much
higher than that of two lousy DIMMs.
Alexandre == Alexandre Oliva [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Ben With Debian and Red Hat, it's totally the opposite. Moving
Ben libraries around is what leads to upgrades being possible.
Alexandre Then why do you find so much trouble with it?
Because of -rpath. :)
That's the only reason
On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 08:01:28PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote:
I intend to package all the dummy packages we have been talking about.
They match the packages that changed its name in the great X
reorganization.
You'll do no such thing or I will take drastic measures. Those packages
are MINE.
Steve McIntyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Don't think so small. Some of us run quite big machines on Debian; my
workstation/server at work has ~300MB of swap configured from ~25GB of
disk. 128 MB of swap is _not_ very big...
I'm NOT thinking small. I'm thinking efficiency. You are
On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 08:43:30PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
* There should be some better way.
Fine. Which one?
Is there a way to have a dpkg --set-selections call lurk in the background
until the current dpkg process ends, like update-menus does now? That
would be a far
To do so would indicate that Slink officially supports v2.2 of the kernel,
which it does not.
What about a README file that says: No, Debian doesn't officially
support 2.2, but for those people who hadn't enough bandwidth but
enough courage here are the sources.
I don't mind so much
On 27-Jan-99, 16:54 (CST), Douglas Bates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On a slink machine I have a crontab entry that should perform an rsync
of a site that I mirror around 22:40 my time (-0600). I have started to
get the reports from the job a little after 16:40 my time which just
happens to be
On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 08:13:30PM -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
Steve McIntyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Don't think so small. Some of us run quite big machines on Debian; my
workstation/server at work has ~300MB of swap configured from ~25GB of
disk. 128 MB of swap is _not_
Branden Robinson writes:
John Hasler might like it but there are about 400 other people to ask.
I look forward to hearing from them. I just want to see the damn thing
fixed. Santiago has proposed a workable solution and offered to implement
it.
Barring a better solution, I will be the one to
On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 10:27:15PM -0500, Avery Pennarun wrote:
Six orders of magnitude?? In the unlikely event that my 100 MHz SDRAM can
really handle 32 bits (4 bytes) per cycle, then it can transfer 400
megabytes per second. It's not REALLY that fast, but I'll give it the
benefit of the
On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 02:53:30PM -0800, Adam Klein wrote:
On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 11:05:43AM -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
I mean the debian patches. Some of them are incorporated upstream, some are
not.
Oh, fro the rxvt package? hmm. Do I need to incorporate those?
Well, they are
I'm wrapping up my first beta disk for (*sigh*) US-only GNU/Linux
security tools. As many of you know, this quasi-distribution was
the cause of some recent discussions. See [1].
This quasi-distribution contains material which definitely *cannot*
be exported without permission from my dear
I'm a fan of netris, so I'll adopt this proggy.
I already recompiled with ncurses4, seems to be OK so far but i'll do
some more testing (wheee gotta love testing games), churn out a manpage
or two, and upload it to potato.
Blert!
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On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 09:18:22PM -0500, Avery Pennarun wrote:
oldpackages=$(dpkg --get-selections
| egrep '^(xfntbase|xfnt75|...)'
| awk '{print $1}')
Oops. I was thinking this part but didn't type it. Yes, of course -- we
don't want to select newpackage for
On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 01:23:17PM -0500, Brian Almeida wrote:
On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 11:57:39AM -0600, Ossama Othman wrote:
If no one else will take your Imlib packages, I will. Let me know what
you think.
They're yours.
God save us.
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G. Branden Robinson | You can
On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 12:19:44AM +, Mark Brown wrote:
While the userland binaries appear to work fine, the PCMCIA kernel module
source in slink will not build with 2.2 kernels. Version 3.0.8 fixes
this.
This appears to be a minor problem. I just put -DEXPORT_SYMTAB into
On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 01:33:30PM -0200, Lalo Martins wrote:
While doing my necessary daily check of Slashdot and Freshmeat,
I noticed two programs I will most likely use - one is irssi, a
GTK IRC client that runs in the panel, but I can't package it
now because none of my GTK-1.1 stuff is
On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 06:06:04AM -, Project Secretary wrote:
This is the last and final ballot. In a weeks time, we will have a new
leader *or* we'll have to start this process over again because NONE
won. If you havn't voted, please cast your ballot now.
I know I speak for all four
/usr/lib/libgnomeui.so.0: undefined symbol: argp_program_version
This happens with some of the GNOME based packages I've installed
from both slink and potatoe lately...
Any ideas what I'm missing or what I did???
thanks
Ivan
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IEM == Ivan E Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
IEM /usr/lib/libgnomeui.so.0: undefined symbol:
IEM argp_program_version This happens with some of the GNOME
IEM based packages I've installed from both slink and potatoe
IEM lately...
IEM Any ideas what I'm missing or what I
On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Joseph Carter wrote:
I know I speak for all four of us candidates when I say that your vote IS
important. This is your project leader you're voting for here. Please
do not forget and please do make your opinion heard! Or if not heard at
least make it be tallied... =
On Wednesday 27 January 1999, at 14 h 40, the keyboard of Paul Seelig
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sorry, i currently don't have any access to the sources of the boot
floppies and therefore don't know about the TODO list's contents.
You can get the last version by CVS:
:ext:[EMAIL
On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 10:08:40AM +0100, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
On Wednesday 27 January 1999, at 14 h 40, the keyboard of Paul Seelig
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What i'd like to see is something like profiles/Textprocessing for
the writing people containing the TeX system and
On Thursday 28 January 1999, at 11 h 23, the keyboard of Christian Meder
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I remember I made a pretty complete TeX profile when I created the profiles
for hamm. Isn't it there anymore ?
There is a TeX *task* (not a profile) of 201 Mb (it includes all the
dependencies,
This is what I hope to be the final test build of XFree86 3.3.2.3a-9; if
there are no significant problems it will be released with that version
number. This test build addresses all four release-critical bugs currently
outstanding against XFree86.
There are exactly 5 things I want to do for
Hi!
Andreas Tille writes:
AT Sorry for my ignorance when deleting the mails under this topic.
AT I was absend from the net for a longer time and couldn't read all
AT my E-Mails. Please repeate the link where to vote for those like
AT me who ignored the mails. I couldn't find a site to
On 28 Jan 1999, Gordon Matzigkeit wrote:
Hi!
Andreas Tille writes:
AT Sorry for my ignorance when deleting the mails under this topic.
AT I was absend from the net for a longer time and couldn't read all
AT my E-Mails. Please repeate the link where to vote for those like
AT me who
On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 01:30:31AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 01:23:17PM -0500, Brian Almeida wrote:
On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 11:57:39AM -0600, Ossama Othman wrote:
If no one else will take your Imlib packages, I will. Let me know what
you think.
They're
On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 08:29:42PM +, James Troup wrote:
Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
+case ${host} in
+ *-pc-linux-gnu)
^^
s/pc/*/ (pc==non-i386 unfriendly)
Good point. However, /usr/doc/lintian/libtool-workarounds.txt suggestions
the above, which is why I have
On 28 Jan 1999, Gordon Matzigkeit wrote:
After some searching, I found it at:
http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-announce-9901/msg00017.html
In the future, could somebody please put the ballot on the debian web
site in an obvious place (such as a link from the same page
On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 07:34:45AM -0500, Brian Almeida wrote:
Was that really necessary? I can name a number of people offhand who aren't
exactly satisfied with your stuff, either. Let's all remember that we're
SUPPOSED to be working towards the same goal, not fighting each other.
It *was* a
On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Andreas Tille (THAT's ME) wrote:
For sure. I was looking through www.debian.org but failed.
In my opinion it is necessary to set up an election page.
I have to state that I am not able to vote because I don't know
anybody of the candidates. The election page has to have
Hi all!
This is my first to the list so I don't really know what to say. I would
like to join to the debian developers community by debianizing Kaffe.
Kaffe is a JAVA Virtual Machine wich is under the GPL. Is anyone doing it?
I haven´t sent a mail to be admited into the developers group, but
=?iso-8859-1?Q?Virgilio == =?iso-8859-1?Q?Virgilio G=F3mez Rubio?=
iso-8859-1 writes:
=?iso-8859-1?Q?Virgilio to join to the debian developers community by
=?iso-8859-1?Q?Virgilio debianizing Kaffe. Kaffe is a JAVA Virtual
Kaffe is in Incoming.
_ _ _
On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 08:06:58AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
It *was* a joke, you know.
It's hard to tell sometimes. :p
Confused about building shlibs. I've got a package which
contains both binaries and a library [don't flame me just yet].
The problem is that dpkg-shlibdeps says that the package depends on itself,
which lintian doesn't like.
So I'm trying to split the package. I run dh_makeshlibs -V, since it's
About the xfonts problem. I haven't been following close enough to pardon
my ignorance on the subject. What if we make the pseudo xbase package
conflict with xfnt* packages version x (a versioned conflict)? How will
dselect handle this, will it upgrade the fonts to the new name? If it
works,
-Message d'origine-
De: Ulrich Drepper [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: jeudi 28 janvier 1999 00:54
À:Jules Bean
Cc: Alexandre Oliva; Debian Developers; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Objet:Re: -rpath with libtool and Debian Linux
Jules Bean [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
rpath is
Branden Robinson wrote:
*) No damn circular symlinks. Check the /etc/X11/xinit and
/etc/X11/xserver directories for them. Some of my postinsts, and dpkg
itself, should scream at upgrade time if this happens, but it never hurts
to be sure.
I just upgraded from 3.3.2.3a-8 to 3.3.2.3a-8pre9v6 with
Jules Bean [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Well, it's on http://vote.debian.org, which is fairly obvious.
No, it actually isn't obvious, any more than www.debian.org/election
is obvious. A link from the Debian home page, or the developers page,
to vote.debian.org seems like a good idea.
By the
Adam Klein wrote:
Oh, fro the rxvt package? hmm. Do I need to incorporate those?
Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
Well, they are there for a reason, aren't they?
Some of the patches will not need to be added, unless you are also
planning to make a Kanji, Greek, or Chinese version of wterm.
On 28-Jan-99 Gordon Matzigkeit wrote:
Hi!
After some searching, I found it at:
http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-announce-9901/msg00017.html
In the future, could somebody please put the ballot on the debian web
site in an obvious place (such as a link from the same page
-Message d'origine-
De: Alexandre Oliva [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: mercredi 27 janvier 1999 20:53
À:J.H.M. Dassen
Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED];
[EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Objet:Re: -rpath with libtool and Debian Linux
On Jan
We have free software guidelines, we have a logo. There may be room for
improvement in both, but we do have them. What we lack is a license for
the logo. This may be a minor issue, but I believe that it's rather
critical right now.
It has been suggested that we trademark the logo. This is a
Sorry for my ignorance when deleting the mails under this topic. I
was absend from the net for a longer time and couldn't read all my
E-Mails. Please repeate the link where to vote for those like me
who ignored the mails. I couldn't find a site to vote.
Instructions are found at
-Message d'origine-
De: Alexandre Oliva [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: mercredi 27 janvier 1999 22:23
À:Jules Bean
Cc: J.H.M. Dassen; debian-devel@lists.debian.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED];
[EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Objet:Re: -rpath with libtool and Debian Linux
While I'm on the topic of the logo, it occurred to me that it might be
nice to choose a mascot for the Debian project. Some sort of beast that
we can use in the logo and in other Debian-related images. Much as
Linux has its penguin, BSD has its devil, and GNU has its, erm, gnu.
Debian should
On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Chris Waters wrote:
1. Dragon (well-liked choice on IRC)
2. Octopus (my own suggestion)
3. Monkey
4. Ant
5. Bee
Ants and Bees are probably the easiest to do cool 3d raytracings with, if
that's any thing. I'd have to take ants. Lots of little creatures doing
their
1. Dragon (well-liked choice on IRC)
Cool. As long as it's a decent dragon
2. Octopus (my own suggestion)
OK
3. Monkey
No
4. Ant
no
5. Bee
no
:)
Matthew
--
Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo
[EMAIL PROTECTED],
Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society
Selwyn College Computer Support
On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 10:14:15AM -0800, Chris Waters wrote:
This is just an idea, and I won't be offended if it's rejected.
I kind of like it...
I brought this up on IRC, and got the following suggestions:
With 400 some odd developers, there are likely to be just about as
many proposals...
*- On 28 Jan, Chris Waters wrote about Call for mascot! :-)
2. Octopus (my own suggestion)
I like this. It would be great for CD covers were each tentacle could
have text overlayed for each architecture: i386, arm, hurd, sparc,
alpha, m68k, powerpc. Well that is seven but there may be more
Teemu Hukkanen wrote:
from the README:
-8-clip-8-
This package contains a first, fixed release of Linux man pages in Finnish.
There are 132 pages from sections 1 and 6.
If you want to contribute, point your browser to
www.redhat.sot.com/Man-pages-fi.shtml
Copyrights: These man pages
On 28-Jan-99 Kevin Dalley wrote:
Well, it's on http://vote.debian.org, which is fairly obvious.
No, it actually isn't obvious, any more than www.debian.org/election
is obvious. A link from the Debian home page, or the developers page,
to vote.debian.org seems like a good idea.
check
On Jan 27, Mike Goldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For license-fans: It uses a license based on the revised Jikes license,
i.e., it's the new Jikes license with 'Compiler' changed to 'Parser
Generator'. The termination clause now uses the same language as the
SecureMailer license (also
On 1999/01/28, Anderson MacKay wrote:
On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Chris Waters wrote:
1. Dragon (well-liked choice on IRC)
2. Octopus (my own suggestion)
3. Monkey
4. Ant
5. Bee
Ants and Bees are probably the easiest to do cool 3d raytracings with, if
that's any thing. I'd have to
On 28-Jan-99 Chris Waters wrote:
While I'm on the topic of the logo, it occurred to me that it might be
nice to choose a mascot for the Debian project. Some sort of beast that
we can use in the logo and in other Debian-related images. Much as
Linux has its penguin, BSD has its devil, and
On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 01:10:46AM -0800, Joseph Carter wrote:
On Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 10:45:57PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[ pathetic attempt at sex spam snipped ]
Can we PLEASE enforce our spam policy and make these people pay for their
crimes against humanity?
--
I'm working in
On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Chris Waters wrote:
2. Octopus (my own suggestion)
How about Cthulhu? That would also tie into Linuxes world domination
theme. :-)
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Jaldhar H. Vyas [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 10:14:15AM -0800, Chris Waters wrote:
1. Dragon (well-liked choice on IRC)
Why not a phoenix?
/me poses for gimp artists being that he'd make a cute mascott... =
(that was supposed to be funny, why aren't you laughing?)
--
I'm working in the dark here. Yeah well
On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 02:38:49PM -0500, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote:
2. Octopus (my own suggestion)
How about Cthulhu? That would also tie into Linuxes world domination
theme. :-)
Nah, that's the NT logo...
Win95 or WinNT? Why settle for the lesser of two evils when you can pay
twice as
I think it's kind of silly that we no have this more or less
'elementary' X package, so I'm offering to package it. Is it
generated from the X sources (in which case, maybe I'll just limit
myself to pestering Branden:-), or proc, or is it its own thing?
Thanks,
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David Welton
On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 02:01:09PM -0600, David Welton wrote:
I think it's kind of silly that we no have this more or less
^ longer
Sorry...:-/
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David Welton http://www.efn.org/~davidw
Debian GNU/Linux -
On Thu, January 28 1999, Anderson MacKay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
|On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Chris Waters wrote:
| 1. Dragon (well-liked choice on IRC)
| 2. Octopus (my own suggestion)
| 3. Monkey
| 4. Ant
| 5. Bee
|
|that's any thing. I'd have to take ants. Lots of little creatures doing
|their
Edward John M. Brocklesby wrote:
1. Dragon (well-liked choice on IRC)
Obviously a dragon is the best choice.
2. Octopus (my own suggestion)
Too complex.
Er, less complex than a _dragon_! Anyone can draw a recognizable octopus,
drawing a decent dragon takes some talent.
--
see shy
On Thu, 28 January 1999 11:33:46 -0800, Oscar Levi wrote:
[ pathetic attempt at sex spam snipped ]
Can we PLEASE enforce our spam policy and make these people pay for their
crimes against humanity?
[..]
There is something missing from the header. I'd guess that qmail is
supressing it.
After getting a few volunteers and asking a few other people I present
to you the Debian logo-team, who will select the best logos for your
voting pleasure:
* Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* Teemu Hukkanen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* Nils Lohner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* James Treacy [EMAIL
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On Thu, 28 Jan 1999 21:04:05 +, Edward John M. Brocklesby wrote:
Yeah, but I mean Octopi are really weird, and you never see them around
anywhere, so some people might not recognise them. Whereas with dragons, you
see them all the time, so they
I am now orphaning[0] or previously orphaned the following:
knl - This is a fairly nice replacement for rdev and friends
the package is bug-free and lintian-clean
vgrind - Run-off preprocessor for program sources
One lintian warning
I had my mirror fail today with the following message:
package=source ftp.debian.org:/debian/dists/slink/main/source -
/mnt/c/4/debian/dists/slink/main/source
Cannot get remote directory listing because: 200 Type set to A.
Cannot get remote directory details (/debian/dists/slink/main/source)
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On Thu, 28 Jan 1999 21:28:29 +, Edward John M. Brocklesby wrote:
I mean, how often do you see an Octopus flying across the sky?
I can honestly say that I'm more likely to see an octopus fly across the
sky than a dragon.
I don't think so
On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 09:28:29PM +, Edward John M. Brocklesby wrote:
I mean, how often do you see an Octopus flying across the sky?
I can honestly say that I'm more likely to see an octopus fly across the
sky than a dragon.
I don't think so - Octopi can't fly! (Unless they
Steve Lamb wrote:
Octopi are real, dragons are mytical. I am more apt to see something
real flying through the air, no matter how improbable, than something
mythical, which I cannot ever see at all.
Well I for one have seen dragons fly. (Dragon kites, that is.)
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On Thu, 28 Jan 1999 13:44:20 -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
Well I for one have seen dragons fly. (Dragon kites, that is.)
Ah, but that is not a dragon, is it? And the picture on that dragon
kite could be a octopus making it, then, an octopus kite?
On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Chris Waters wrote:
1. Dragon (well-liked choice on IRC)
2. Octopus (my own suggestion)
3. Monkey
4. Ant
5. Bee
Ants and Bees are probably the easiest to do cool 3d raytracings with, if
that's any thing. I'd have to take ants. Lots of little creatures doing
their
Edward John M. Brocklesby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I don't think so - Octopi can't fly!
Someone who obviously hasn't read RFC 1925...
--
James
Never trust trucks
Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 08:29:42PM +, James Troup wrote:
Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
+case ${host} in
+ *-pc-linux-gnu)
^^
s/pc/*/ (pc==non-i386 unfriendly)
Good point. However,
SL == Steve Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
SL On Thu, 28 Jan 1999 21:28:29 +, Edward John M. Brocklesby wrote:
SL Octopi are real, dragons are mytical. I am more apt to see
SL something real flying through the air, no matter how improbable,
SL than something mythical, which I cannot ever
Note to Def
Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This is what I hope to be the final test build of XFree86 3.3.2.3a-9; if
there are no significant problems it will be released with that version
number. This test build addresses all four release-critical bugs currently
outstanding
On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 01:35:24PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote:
I mean, how often do you see an Octopus flying across the sky?
I can honestly say that I'm more likely to see an octopus fly across
the sky than a dragon.
I don't think so - Octopi can't fly! (Unless they flap their arms
On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 12:00:43PM -0500, Brian Mays wrote:
| Adam Klein wrote:
|
| Oh, fro the rxvt package? hmm. Do I need to incorporate those?
|
|Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
|
| Well, they are there for a reason, aren't they?
|
|Some of the patches will not need to be added, unless you are
On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 06:14:17PM -0500, Avery Pennarun wrote:
Octopi and ants may also be good, if they have wings.
Ants with wings would look like termites. Ick...
--
David Welton http://www.efn.org/~davidw
Debian GNU/Linux - www.debian.org
Steve Lamb writes:
Octopi are real, dragons are mytical. I am more apt to see something
real flying through the air, no matter how improbable, than something
mythical, which I cannot ever see at all.
Mere nonexistence is a feeble excuse for declaring a thing unseeable.
You *can* see dragons.
On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Avery Pennarun wrote:
For that matter, how about a flying pig? Then at least outsiders will get
the joke.
If we're going for flying barnyard animals, I really have to go with
flying cows. I mean, I'm sure this is horribly english-language-centric
:), but you've got great
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