Re: LINUX Install

2002-05-01 Thread Daniel Burrows
I'll skip the beginning of the post, partly because I can't even parse a number of your sentences, and partly because I'm short on time and want to stick to factual questions which are easy to answer. On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 05:32:19AM +, Dusty Mows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > I

Re: Working on debian developer's reference and "best packaging practices"

2002-05-01 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Anthony" == Anthony Towns writes: >> On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 03:46:17PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> > Apropos to that, Policy proper contains elements that ought >> > not to be in there, but remain as vestigial documentation of dpkg >> > (which is how policy started). Policy is

Re: Working on debian developer's reference and "best packaging practices"

2002-05-01 Thread Anthony Towns
> On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 03:46:17PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > Apropos to that, Policy proper contains elements that ought > > not to be in there, but remain as vestigial documentation of dpkg > > (which is how policy started). Policy is going to be cleaned up and, > > and perhaps

Re: Working on debian developer's reference and "best packaging practices"

2002-05-01 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 03:46:17PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Hi, > > Apropos to that, Policy proper contains elements that ought > not to be in there, but remain as vestigial documentation of dpkg > (which is how policy started). Policy is going to be cleaned up and, > and perhaps

Re: LINUX Install

2002-05-01 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Wed, 2002-05-01 at 06:32, Dusty Mows wrote: > I do not consider myself to be computer illiterate - but I am MS-DOS trained > and bred from v2.0 onward and including the Shells of Win 3.x, 95, 98.x, ME > - but your distribution of LINUX requires a learning curve beyond > comprehension. I unde

LINUX Install

2002-05-01 Thread Dusty Mows
I do not consider myself to be computer illiterate - but I am MS-DOS trained and bred from v2.0 onward and including the Shells of Win 3.x, 95, 98.x, ME - but your distribution of LINUX requires a learning curve beyond comprehension. I understand LINUX is a derivative of UNIX and kernels and t

LINUX Install

2002-05-01 Thread Dusty Mows
I do not consider myself to be computer illiterate - but I am MS-DOS trained and bred from v2.0 onward and including the Shells of Win 3.x, 95, 98.x, ME - but your distribution of LINUX requires a learning curve beyond comprehension. I understand LINUX is a derivative of UNIX and kernels and t