>> My oberon [the good OS] collaborator, friend sent the CD from the other >> side of the world. So It's home made.
>OK, if this CD is home-made, then how come this has to do >with Debian? It might be based on Debian, but this mysterious >collaborator might have introduced changes, which had some >subtile side-effects, e.g. like breaking bundled mc package. Yes it might depend on the 'ghost in the box' too, but I take a probibalistic approach: = I've installed mc on Slak3, RH6.2; Slak?; Mandrake9; FC1, mulinux... all with no problems. = I've got both Etch & Lenny CD's from the "mysterious collaborator" and both indicate an elaborated 'checking for uncorrupted files' procedure before/during installation. = The Debian documentation ACTIVELY encourages user duplication of their CDs. = I found myself uncomfortable with Debian documentation: the subtle, difficult to explain feeling of a socialist english school teacher is summarised in the 'aptitude' user interface. Compare aptitude, which you'd only use to install/update; with mc which you've used a million times since DOS/nc, and note that aptitude has screens of menus. Like the unduly controlling school-teacher, aptitude-developers take themselves too serious, in expecting you to learn the screens of menu instuctions which has no other value except for THEIR seldom used product. > What's the problem with downloading the original Debian CD and trying > whether it works or not before putting the blame on Debian? You don't want/need to know my circumstamces which differ from what you are familiar with. And I suspect that if I wanted to "get married to Debian" by investing resources to familiarise myself with their different way of doing it, all would work. I DO suspect that their emphasis on security is good for beginners. Personally I always run as root. Life is just too short. Since the only lasting asset is your knowledge, one should not get married to a product. mc's secret was that it leaveraged the universally appicable design principles of Norton's commander. >I don't think it makes any sense for us to try to support you to get >some ancient version of the software that you've got from some broken >home-made CD (origins unknown) to work. Are you the chairman/controller of "us"? Is this mail-list different from others which are based on collaboration? If you want to SHOW that you can SUPPORT then tell how would I set my 'bash mini-mc' so that when it quits, it doesn't pwd back to the dir from where it ran. Actually I believe mc does this too, and it's a fact of the kernel. So you need a higher/more-global 'environment' where pwd can be stored. It seems that gpm uses a very 'Hi' environment, since it even operates across chroot/s. I guess the DebLenny-2009 CD has the newest version of mc that I'll ever use in my life. In principle, I prefer to wait for a few years untill a product has prove itself, like mc did. == TIA. _______________________________________________ Mc mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc
