Re: Tool to provide fake dependencies

2005-01-11 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 01:12:43PM -0800, Shaun Jackman wrote: > I recall there's a tool that builds small .deb packages that Provides > some dependency, without doing any actualy work. What package is this > tool in? Try as I might, I haven't been able to find it. equivs Frank > > Thanks, > Sha

Re: installing a source tree?

2004-12-15 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 12:24:15PM -0500, Chasecreek Systemhouse wrote: > On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 17:13:10 +, Steve Kemp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 'postgresql-dev'. > > > > What's the name of the software you're trying to build? > > > > > I'm creating/documenting a quick Debian_Hints

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activity monitor

2004-12-01 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 03:30:24PM -0200, Everton da Silva Marques wrote: > It's VERY oppressive to force hot-babe out of > Debian because of personal feelings about nudity. > It's pure anti-speech insanity leading the way > to socialism. How is this related to socialism at all ? Frank -- "Debu

Re: Bug#219582: ITP: linux -- Linux 2.4 kernel

2003-11-07 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 10:48:06PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > > Then how do you suggest maintaining a kernel 2.4.20 for one > > architecture and a 2.4.22 for another architecture, when you can't even > > test on either of them? > > I wouldn't. I'm going to track the latest minor version, just

Re: Debian 10th birthday gear

2003-07-11 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 11:21:18PM +1000, Steve Kowalik wrote: > At 9:13 pm, Friday, July 11 2003, Craig Sanders mumbled: > > you're all making a big mistake. those numbers were obviously binary, not > > decimal. > > > 2 architectures? Rght. Little endian and big endian. Or CISC and

Re: Debian 10th birthday gear

2003-07-11 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 11:44:12AM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 09:44:06PM -0400, James Michael Greenhalgh wrote: > > > > > > > 100 million users > > > > > 1000 installations > > > > > > > > I would recommend to exchange these last two lines. More installation

Re: Bug#198158: architecture i386 isn't i386 anymore

2003-06-29 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 09:04:55AM -0400, David B Harris wrote: > On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 14:04:54 -0500 > Gunnar Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > And not only 80386 needs this - There is the Sparc64 port which would > > also benefit from this (http://www.debian.org/ports/sparc/#64bit). If we > > ha

Re: donations wishlist?

2003-05-20 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 10:15:54AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > > I could use some non-mac m68k boxes to do exactly that :-) > Does that include boxes that are not supported by the kernel yet ? I have a VME 68030 board with full hardware documentation here... Frank

Re: Daft Internet Stuff [Re: Returning from "vacation". (MIA?)]

2003-05-18 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Sun, May 18, 2003 at 07:26:34PM +0100, Neil McGovern wrote: > I disagree. Once I've explained why I don't like HTML e-mail, people > normally see 'my side' and switch. And if they still don't see it, the following 'html' might convince them, at least if they use outlook (be careful. It is not h

Re: plagiarism of reiserfs by Debian

2003-04-20 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Sun, Apr 20, 2003 at 01:02:15PM -0500, Chris Cheney wrote: > in an editor is not bloat? By the way emacs21 takes 50MB to install (vim > takes 15MB), and yes a full KDE install takes more at around 254MB to > install but it could be argued it provides more functionality. ;) Are you sure ? Emacs