Re: [Cooker] GET READY FOR A DISCUSSION - Pay less attention to adding features and more to fixing problems

2000-05-26 Thread Stuart Krivis
by MandrakeSoft guarantees that there will be some bugs. Hell, gcc and glibc have bugs, and everything is built on those. The bugs are built-in. :-) -- Stuart Krivis[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped

Re: [Cooker] GET READY FOR A DISCUSSION - Dependencies

2000-05-26 Thread Stuart Krivis
since you don't stand much chance of successfully compiling something without the dependencies. For binary packages, pkg_add is not that smart and only warns you about dependencies. -- Stuart Krivis[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wro

RE: [Cooker] Idea for new utility

2000-05-23 Thread Stuart Krivis
WITH_128BIT) && !defined(NO_FORTIFY) cd ${WRKDIR}/${FORTIFY} \ && (${ECHO}; ${ECHO} yes; ${ECHO} no; ${ECHO} no) \ | ./Fortify.sh ${NDIR}/${BROWSER_ARC}-${BROWSER_VER}.bin .endif ${CHOWN} -R root:wheel ${NDIR} post-install: ${CAT} ${PKGDIR

Re: [Cooker] Idea for new utility

2000-05-23 Thread Stuart Krivis
, so it switches there, works on foo, then returns to kde. FreeBSD is really a source distribution, where rpm- and deb-based Linux distros are binary distributions. Then we get into cvsup, make world, etc... :-) But that's off-topic. hehe -- Stuart Krivis[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fourth la

Re: [Cooker] Idea for new utility

2000-05-23 Thread Stuart Krivis
us > who have no problem installing software, this would seem like a Good Thing. You're basically describing the FreeBSD ports system, although it is accessed by "make," instead of a new utility. -- Stuart Krivis[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fourth law of programming: Anyth

Re: [Cooker] X configuration

2000-05-23 Thread Stuart Krivis
root for security reasons. ___________ TO: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but can't your user just call X like this: startx -- -bpp 16 -- Stuart Krivis[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped

Re: [Cooker] Netscape 4.72-14mdk

2000-05-07 Thread Stuart Krivis
I guess I should have been more clear... It's actually the -14mdk that I was praising. The -10mdk package did not look this good. As for your reasons, I didn't do any of those, and I use WindowMaker. :-) -- Stuart Krivis[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fourth law of programming: Anyth

[Cooker] Netscape 4.72-14mdk

2000-05-06 Thread Stuart Krivis
Very nice. This has the best look of any Netscape I've seen running on a unix system. Web pages are actually legible. :-) -- Stuart Krivis[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped

[Cooker] Windowmaker prob

2000-05-06 Thread Stuart Krivis
. Running wmakerconf from an xterm solved most of that, although there seems to be a problem with conversion of menus from old to new. (The first thing it asks you to do...) -- Stuart Krivis[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped