Re: apt-findremovable v0.1 (initial release)

Jan Kechel: > Michal Čihař wrote: >> Anyway if you use aptitude instead of apt-get it tracks >> all that automatically and you don't have to guess. > Cool, didn't know that. But it doesn't work for > packages that are already installed via apt-get. You can mark all packages as installed automat

Re: Centralized darcs

Lars Wirzenius: > to, 2006-08-03 kello 11:23 +0100, martin f krafft kirjoitti: >> It sure works, but you have to let mutt know about it: >> subscribe debian-devel@lists.debian.org >> That's a *good* thing. > My point was that having to tell mutt manually about every mailing > list is a pain,

Re: Need for launchpad

Kevin Mark: > Also, I was checking packages.ubuntu.com -> dapper -> base > utils->bash->view Debian changelog and it was a dead link. If you change the 'packages' in the URL to 'changelogs' it works. I mailed Frank Lichtenheld about this yesterday. -- Shot -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

Re: [Fwd: major problem with gnome-games dependency]

Hello. Joe Smith: > In other words recommendations mean: "This package does not actually > NEED the listed packages, but it is unlikely you will want to install > this package without the listed package." Given that auto-pulling in of recommendations is the first thing I turn off in aptitude aft

Re: debian mentors & ubuntu

Hello. David Nusinow: > On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 10:30:14AM +0900, Miles Bader wrote: >> [The small amount of stuff that _is_ different seems to mostly be >> high-profile end-user GUI apps that aren't going to have much >> significance for a server anyway.] > Then why not run Debian? My wild gu

Re: charsets in debian/control

Hello. Paul Hampson: > The email address isn't important, since > that has to be a subset of ASCII anyway. Are the Unicode-encoded domain names supported in (modern) browsers only? I can surf to http://ł.pl/ (with, e.g., Firefox) - can I send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], or should I always use th

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

Hello. Ron Johnson: > If Disk 1 has hot-babe on it, I couldn't give it > to Dick or Jane the 13 year old neighborhood geeks. If Disk 1 has hot-babe on it, then hot-babe is one of the most popular (most wanted) packages. I'd rather have Disk 1 more usable for Debian users than more suited for giv

Re: bad archive handling (was: Re: GNOME 2.8 on ia64 completely hosed?)

Hello. Sven Luther: > No the real solution to this is to have the archive software accept > multiple copies of a same package, and not remove the older arch:all > packages when there are still arch:any package from the same source > package in the archive. But the original problem (from debian-g