Re: Package configuration philosophy

1997-02-26 Thread Yoav Cohen-Sivan
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, 25 Feb 1997, Yoav Cohen-Sivan wrote: > > > > Debian comes up in a much "rawer" form after install - for instance, > > no prompt beyond the basic "#&qu

Package configuration philosophy

1997-02-25 Thread Yoav Cohen-Sivan
It seems that Debian is taking a rather different philosophy on pre-configured packages than other distributions, such as RedHat. What I mean is that after installation of RedHat you have a more or less pre-tailored system setup. You can start tweaking your heart out but the basics are already ther

Dependency problems and conjectures

1997-02-25 Thread Yoav Cohen-Sivan
It seems to me we've got a problem with the way dependencies and the installation are handled. It seems that if package 1 is dependent on packages 2,3 and 4, and all were selected for installation, then dselect doesn't always install 2,3 and 4 before 1. More usually it installs 2, then tries 1 and

Re: Debian on the shuttle

1997-02-20 Thread Yoav Cohen-Sivan
oks like this is a release meant for the general public I deem it only fair that they think of Debian as an implementation of the GNU project and the Linux Kernel, and not as some new OS. I would prefer Debian stood on its own merit. Yoav > On Thu, 20 Feb 1997, Yoav Cohen-Sivan wrote: >

Re: Debian on the shuttle

1997-02-20 Thread Yoav Cohen-Sivan
Jonas Bofjall wrote: > > On Thu, 20 Feb 1997, Yoav Cohen-Sivan wrote: > > > First and foremost - great going guys! But... It saddened me to see > > no mention of Linus' name in the article. He is more than just a > > Neither of Richard Stallman or the GNU

Re: Debian on the shuttle

1997-02-20 Thread Yoav Cohen-Sivan
First and foremost - great going guys! But... It saddened me to see no mention of Linus' name in the article. He is more than just a "Finnish college student" (in fact, he isn't one anymore) and I believe he should have been given more credit, at least his name should have appeared in the press rel