On May 28, 12:55pm, Joey Hess wrote: > Buddha Buck: > > Personally, I question placing them in the main distribution at all > > (including non-free and contrib). I have nothing wrong with the > > contents (if available, it would be installed on my system rather > > quickly), but rather the unwanted publicity it could cause. > > I packaged up some of the ASR man pages as a red hat package back 9 or 10 > months ago when I was using red hat, and uploaded it to ftp.dehat.com. This > was before dead chickens appeared on ASR. :-) I don't think that package > generated unwanted publicity, in fact, I never heard from anyone who ever > installed it.
I think so too... But will _try_ to ask people at a.s.r their opinion. > > Look at it this way: I don't think any of the man pages mention ASR at all. > So the only person who is going to connect ASR with the package is someone > who looks at the package description. Who's most likly to do that? The > sysadmin who installs it [1]. Seems appropriate... :^) > > Oh, to the packager: be sure to include the c(1) manpage that appeared on > ASR yesterday. Probably in release 1.1-1 or something :^) I'd like to see n(1) and k(5) first, so this part would be complete :^) > > [1] Or at least a user clueful enough to know about dpkg -s [2] > [2] Sorry about [1] and [2]. ASR-mode, you know.. :^) > > -- > see shy jo Paul -- (___) | Pawel Wiecek ------------- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | < o o > | http://www.ists.pwr.wroc.pl/~coven/ | \ ^ / | finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP key | (") | * * * To err is human, to moo bovine * * * | -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .