Re: Cannot re-install synaptic on Buster.

Hi. On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 01:24:32AM -0400, Kieran Smyth wrote: > For reasons unknown to me, synaptic uninstalled itself about three weeks > ago. I am using Buster on the desktop, with MATE as my desktop environment. Synaptic was removed from testing two weeks ago, see #818366. > I lik

Cannot re-install synaptic on Buster.

Hi, For reasons unknown to me, synaptic uninstalled itself about three weeks ago. I am using Buster on the desktop, with MATE as my desktop environment. When i open up a terminal and try to re-install it, i get the following- # apt update Hit:1 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian buster InRelease Hi

Re: BTRFS snapshot space consumption (was: New laptop: need advice on choice...)

Dan Ritter writes: > Peter Wiersig wrote: > > ZFS is now in two incompatible versions: Oracle's, and ZFSonLinux, > which is now effectively the parent for all the other efforts including > FreeBSD's ZFS. The biggest problem is the incompatible license which makes the code untouchable. How Orac

Liquorix kernel?

Greetings! I have just now heard about this custom kernel directed to performance and I was wondering - anyone here has any experience with that? I'd rather just download their .config and compile the kernel from a deb src package, any thoughts? Thanks in advance. Francisco -- [

Re: BTRFS snapshot space consumption (was: New laptop: need advice on choice...)

Peter Wiersig wrote: > Matthew Crews writes: > > > > Here is a good talk on the subject by Michael Lucas, one of the premier > > experts on ZFS. Its worth noting that a lot of the concepts apply to > > BTRFS to varying degrees: > > > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9A0dX2WqW8 > > I don't have

Re: Exploring package interrelationships

On Sun 14 Apr 2019 at 07:32:36 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > Long term goal: *personal* definition of a minimalist Debian Debian is in no way minimilist: in fact, it's the opposite, "The universal operating system" claiming over 51000 packages. You're the one claiming to be a minimalist, thoug

Re: Exploring package interrelationships

On 04/14/2019 07:50 AM, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: On Sun, Apr 14, 2019 at 7:33 AM Richard Owlett > wrote: That ... Moderate trimming is good. Yours destroyed the context of "That". It referred to: In past conversations it has been suggested that I do a typical

Re: just mail forwarding to smart mailer

> I am looking for an "easy light weight just empty the local queue and Very very very easy thing: https://wiki.debian.org/sSMTP Sincerely, Byung-Hee from South Korea. -- ^고맙습니다 _地平天成_ 감사합니다_^))//

Re: BTRFS snapshot space consumption (was: New laptop: need advice on choice...)

Matthew Crews writes: > > Here is a good talk on the subject by Michael Lucas, one of the premier > experts on ZFS. Its worth noting that a lot of the concepts apply to > BTRFS to varying degrees: > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9A0dX2WqW8 I don't have time yet, I think I will watch the whol

Re: Exploring package interrelationships

On Sun, Apr 14, 2019 at 7:33 AM Richard Owlett wrote: > > That is undesirable for two primary reasons: > 1. I would not reach my primary goal of "grok how packages interact". > I think a better way to proceed, which will be quite confusing itself :-) is to simply explore those relationships usin

Exploring package interrelationships

Long term goal: *personal* definition of a minimalist Debian current goal: grok how packages interact current *test case*/example: a very minimal install of MATE An illustration of the opposite of what I want is task-mate-desktop. It's description states: This task package is used to install th

Re: BTRFS snapshot space consumption (was: New laptop: need advice on choice...)

On Sat, Apr 13, 2019 at 7:08 PM Felix Miata wrote: > > Anders Andersson composed on 2019-04-13 17:31 (UTC+0200): > > > Felix Miata wrote: > > >> Because of its snapshotting, BTRFS requires considerably more space than > >> older > >> filesystems, as much as double. > > > A btrfs snapshot takes ap