Re: VI reasons (was Re: Base Set: Suggested additions removals.)
On Fri, Jun 12, 1998 at 09:53:16PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: Problem is, you'll never be able to convince a DOS user of a text editor with different modes. Sorry, I don't think a dumb newbie should be able to install a workstation, but he should be able to install the base system and play with Gnome apps. And he shouldn't have to choose Shell... option from menu. So he doesn't need an editor, and that means it could be vi, or even ed if there is not enough space. ash itself is to complicated, also mount, fdisk, etc. What is the real reason to put ae on rescue fd? It doesn't really help anybody. -- Tomislav Vujec [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- To understand recursion, one must first understand recursion... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mirror of Incoming
On Mon, Apr 20, 1998 at 02:52:08PM +0200, Ole J. Tetlie wrote: I seem to remember that there are mirrors of incoming. Could anyone point me to one? master doesn't seem to fancy ftp at the moment and I have an acute need of the new guile packs. Try: URL:ftp://llug.sep.bnl.gov/pub/debian/Incoming/ -- Tomislav Vujec [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- To understand recursion, one must first understand recursion... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: locale errors
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kai Henningsen) writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Baker) wrote on 15.06.97 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I got that (with perl only) before I installed debian; it doesn't like locale settings that other programs seem to get on with OK. Try removing the LANG variable and it ought to work. Is whatever sets LANG (your .bashrc?) something you copied off another system? Removing LANG is, of course, not an option, except maybe for people from English-speaking countries. But setting LANG to _correct_ value (e.g. en or en_US) might help. -- Tomislav Vujec [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- To understand recursion, one must first understand recursion... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Debian's Modify Redistribute Policy (was: the ncurses brushfire)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Perens) writes: I agree with you on this. I personally believe that Debian should relax this requirement about non-modifiable redistributable code not being suitable for the primary distribution. I've never seen how it helps any cause other than sticking a finger in the eye of those who might like to keep some medium of control over their work. We can't allow it because it prohibits ports, and it prohibits bug-fixes. But, do we realy distribute modified versions? I think that our source distribution policy (orig, diff and dsc file) keeps source in almost unchanged form, and diffs are distributed separately. Does licence prohibits name change to .orig, and renaming of base directory? If the answer is yes, we can solve both problems with few entries in description file. -- Tomislav Vujec [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- To understand recursion, one must first understand recursion... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Perl issues
Vincent Renardias [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 21 May 1997, Darren/Torin/Who Ever... wrote: 2. The man-pages and html-docs would go into a separate perl-doc package. I agree for the html docs, but I think each manpage should go into the package containing the feature it documents. I can agree with you in case of classic manpages in section 1, but perl-doc seems to be the right place for perl documentation. There is much more information about perl language than it's executable. Possible solution could be to place perl.1 and perlrun.1 to perl, and others to perl-doc, or maybe to perl-dev? -- Tomislav Vujec [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- To understand recursion, one must first understand recursion... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
