On Sat, Aug 28, 1999 at 06:35:48PM -0500, David Blackman wrote: > I came up with a better idea (I think).
OK, I hope. > file, we all love file, right? file has a database of what various file > types look like, so it will tell you if text is C code, html, text, a > staticly linked file, or whatever. file rocks. Yes; file is great. > All file is: a frontend to a database of file types. > > Get ready: > 2 programs filer & apt-get-filer > filer has a databse of file types, once a week you sync it with the great > filer databasse in the sky (work with me here people), it has an internal > list of what program will 'do' stuff to thsi file (let's say for .prc, it > returns jpilot, kpilot, pilot-mgr, pilot-link, for word docs it returns > word-view, staroffice, wp8) with me here? now you know what programs do > stuff to those files > Hmm. This idea an be great, but the problem is that is will only work on programs using file formats w/ extensions. But it's great anyway. > apt-get-filer ask you what programs you want from the output of filer on > [file-type], and gets it for you, (obviously only stuff that apt can get > to, duh!), I've got an unused domain @ www.whizziwig.com, I'd love to host > filer (& help coordinate it), the hardest part woudln't be the coding (get > teh file people to help 'us' out),creating a syncable filer database would > be a bitch. Yes, terribly ! Have you an idea of how to create one ? > > > ideas? > > --David Blackman > aka Whizziwig > "sometimes I even amaze myself" > > > On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Sami Dalouche wrote: > > > On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 01:11:24PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > > > On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 01:19:56PM -0500, Ashley Clark wrote: > > > > On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Sami Dalouche wrote: > > > > > I would like to know if there's a possibility with apt (or something > > > > > else) > > > > > to do the same that windows/Office 2000. > > > > > It installs automaticly new software from the CD when you want to > > > > > start a > > > > > non-installed function. > > > > > > > > > > It could be great if under Debian, when we type a command that don't > > > > > exist, > > > > > it would automaticly search the command from a small APT database or > > > > > from the internet if diald|direct connection is here. > > > > > And we could specify in a conffile to download the software or to > > > > > install > > > > > directly from the CD. > > > > > > > > > > Wouldn't it be cool ? Is it possible to program ? > > > > > > > > Egads man! That would be a lot of work, for it to work (I personally > > > > wouldn't > > > > want it on my machine for numerous reasons) you'd have to make *EVERY* > > > > program > > > > that executed a program check with apt/dpkg to see if a package > > > > contains that > > > > executable. The only other way around it would be to write a wrapper > > > > program > > > > that would take as arguments the command line to search for and possibly > > > > install. This would be easier but you'd still have to tell all other > > > > programs > > > > to change what they execute in order for your program to search for new > > > > packages. > > > > > > <sarcasm> > > > You could just get really spiffy and rewrite glibc's exec*() calls to do > > > all of this. Then when you execute a command as root, like accidentally > > > typing ssh instead of sh, then all of the sudden you have an import/export > > > restricted piece of software automatically installed on your system! > > > > > > Or better yet run some scripts that try to exec programs that aren't > > > available and see how much you can overload your bandwidth! > > > </sarcasm> > > > > > > Sorry, auto updating packages to the latest version is one thing, but auto > > > installing is down right dangerous. Just because it's "nifty" and "easy" > > > doesn't mean it's a good idea. Gee, Windows itself is "nifty" and "easy" > > > isn't it? :) > > > > > > Ben > > > > Thank you very much for all your answers. I didn't imagine this as hard as > > it is and didn't see the dangerous aspect of it. > > As a result, I will wait a bit before beginning so difficult and dangerous > > software like this. > > But your answers were very helpful. > > > > sami > > > > -- > > LL II NN N U U X X RRRR U U LL EEEEE ZZZZZ !! > > LL N N N U U XX R R U U LL E__ Z !! > > LL II N N N U U XX RRR U U LL E Z > > LLLLL II N NN UUUUU X X R R UUUUU LLLLL EEEEE ZZZZZ !! > > > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > > > > > > > -- LL II NN N U U X X RRRR U U LL EEEEE ZZZZZ !! LL N N N U U XX R R U U LL E__ Z !! LL II N N N U U XX RRR U U LL E Z LLLLL II N NN UUUUU X X R R UUUUU LLLLL EEEEE ZZZZZ !!