Re: /usr/lib vs /usr/libexec

2005-05-10 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Once upon a time GOMBAS Gabor said... $ df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda5 99M 75M 19M 80% / [...] $ du -sh /etc/gconf 26M /etc/gconf That's 1/3 of my root fs. It's damn too much. I discovered this a while ago and learned that

Re: what is /.udev for ?

2005-02-09 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Once upon a time Ron Johnson said... On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 12:43 -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote: Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: One thing I do know is that traditional apps like df (and anything that uses stat(), I guess) don't know about /.dev, and so return false information:

Re: GPL and command-line libraries

2004-11-02 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Once upon a time Wesley W. Terpstra said... Good evening! I'm developing an error-correcting code library which works on a lot of data at once. Since the API is quite simple and the cost of process creation relatively insignificant, I would like to provide a command-line API. ... To

Re: proposal: 'xterm' alternatives entry

2004-10-10 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Once upon a time martin f krafft said... The procedure would be to upload a new 'xterm' package which moves /usr/bin/xterm to /usr/bin/xterm.real and introduces /usr/bin/xterm as alternatives symlink in addition to x-terminal-emulator. Then, progressively, the other x-terminal-emulator