Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Open Letter to Debian Community]

2005-03-17 Thread Emanuele Rocca
* [ 14-03-05 - 21:03 ] Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-03-14 20:28]: One example of how debian could help debtags being integrated is a policy which makes the developer the responsible of tagging the packages (s)he maintains.

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Open Letter to Debian Community]

2005-03-17 Thread Frank Küster
Emanuele Rocca [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: * [ 14-03-05 - 21:03 ] Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-03-14 20:28]: One example of how debian could help debtags being integrated is a policy which makes the developer the responsible of

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Open Letter to Debian Community]

2005-03-14 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Op vr, 11-03-2005 te 16:55 -0300, schreef Daniel Ruoso: One example of how debian could help debtags being integrated is a policy which makes the developer the responsible of tagging the packages (s)he maintains. That sounds like a good idea, actually. Make it a policy proposal? --

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Open Letter to Debian Community]

2005-03-14 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Op zo, 13-03-2005 te 23:57 +0100, schreef martin f krafft: also sprach David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005.03.11.1926 +0100]: You should be using aptitude instead of apt-get, again. aptitude has the feature that it remembers which packages it installs automatically to satisfy

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Open Letter to Debian Community]

2005-03-14 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Daniel Ruoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-03-14 17:09]: That sounds like a good idea, actually. Make it a policy proposal? That's not how policy works, but it should probably be mentioned in the Developer's Reference. Feel free to file a wishlist bug. Well, I must admit that this email

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Open Letter to Debian Community]

2005-03-13 Thread Wouter Verhelst
[...] Debian users will tell you that apt-get is more efficient than RPM because RPM's dependencies are other packages, while apt-get's dependencies are individual files. It's actually the other way around; RPM can do dependencies on individual files, packages, and virtual packages, while dpkg

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Open Letter to Debian Community]

2005-03-13 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005.03.11.1926 +0100]: You should be using aptitude instead of apt-get, again. aptitude has the feature that it remembers which packages it installs automatically to satisfy dependencies. Or use deborphan to identify and remove packages that are

[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Open Letter to Debian Community]

2005-03-11 Thread Martin Schulze
Moved to the proper list (I hope). Please copy Toby in your replies as he is most probably not subscribed. Regards, Joey - Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Subject: Open Letter to Debian Community Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 07:11:30 -0800 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Open Letter to Debian Community]

2005-03-11 Thread David Nusinow
On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 05:20:06PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: Moved to the proper list (I hope). Please copy Toby in your replies as he is most probably not subscribed. Thanks Joey. - Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] - . But Debian needs work. There needs to be master

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Open Letter to Debian Community]

2005-03-11 Thread Martin Schulze
- Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I've been reading a lot lately about how Debian Linux is better than the Red Hat/Fedora flavor. So I went and tried two Debian based distros, Mepis and Ubuntu. Each of them used about 1.5GB of hard drive space. Mepis used 150MB RAM, but to

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Open Letter to Debian Community]

2005-03-11 Thread David Nusinow
On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 10:16:02AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Specific to your response, I want to say that I did try the reverse: apt-remove kde. While it did prevent me from seeing KDE anymore, excessive remnants of KDE and KDE libraries were still left over. My intention was to

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Open Letter to Debian Community]

2005-03-11 Thread Daniel Ruoso
- Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Subject: Open Letter to Debian Community With apt-get, you have to know exactly which packages you need to make a software system work. Let's take MySQL for example. To make it work, you need the mysql-common, mysql-server, and mysql