Re: Dear Debian Maintainers (usability)

2004-06-09 Thread J. Preiss
> For example either of the following > aptitude search console > apt-cache search console config > > produces among other things: > > console-common - Basic infrastructure for text console configuration > Nice hint, thanks. But "network config" shows too many entries... anyway, edit the int

Re: Dear Debian Maintainers (usability)

2004-06-09 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 04:19:32PM +0200, J. Preiss wrote: > > dpgk-reconfigure is only required if you want to reconfigure a > > package. Packages remember the initial configurations so you need to > > configure them on upgrade only if a configuration option changed. > > The problem is that every

Re: Dear Debian Maintainers (usability)

2004-06-09 Thread Helmut Wollmersdorfer
J. Preiss schrieb: [...] (could someone translate unglaubwuerdig, please). You can use one of the best web resources for EN <-> DE http://dict.leo.org/ Direct Matches unbelievable adj. unglaubwürdig Phrases and Collocations not authentic unglaubwürdig

Re: Dear Debian Maintainers (usability)

2004-06-09 Thread J. Preiss
> "not plausible" (apt-get install translate) tststs... :-) Great tool! But not useful until I cope with umlauts :-( (Dont reply,its another thread). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Dear Debian Maintainers (usability)

2004-06-09 Thread Matthias Czapla
On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 11:42:25AM +0200, J. Preiss wrote: > I could start a new one, but I dont like to make the same work twice. And the > feeling to say: hello, I am new, and I write for you all a nice config tool, > it will be great... this is... (could someone translate unglaubwuerdig, > pl

Re: Dear Debian Maintainers (usability)

2004-06-09 Thread J. Preiss
> us something to which we are entitled. While I wouldn't have > added the "wah wah wah!" part, I, too, found the post to which > Jaldhar Vyas replied to be a bit selfish in tone; and I know > that if I was putting tons of time into developing Debian and > then read something like that, I'd be pre

Re: Dear Debian Maintainers (usability)

2004-06-09 Thread steef van duin
Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: On Tue, 8 Jun 2004, David Moreno Garza wrote: On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 15:30, W Paul Mills wrote: As in every other aspect of life, there is no such thing as a free lunch. Humm... He is a new debian user, and you want him to start fixing things immediately. He m

Re: Dear Debian Maintainers (usability)

2004-06-08 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Tue, 8 Jun 2004, David Moreno Garza wrote: > On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 15:30, W Paul Mills wrote: > > > As in every other aspect of life, there is no such thing as a free lunch. > > > > Humm... > > He is a new debian user, and you want him to start fixing things > > immediately. He may never stick

Re: Dear Debian Maintainers (usability)

2004-06-08 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Mon, 7 Jun 2004, J. Preiss wrote: > I hope the new installer will care about these problems. I dont want to > change back to suse. I dont want to pay just because of new kernel / new > kde / new version of wah wah wah! debian is a community, a give-and-take not a product. If you don't l

Re: Dear Debian Maintainers (usability)

2004-06-08 Thread J. Preiss
> dpgk-reconfigure is only required if you want to reconfigure a > package. Packages remember the initial configurations so you need to > configure them on upgrade only if a configuration option changed. The problem is that everything is within a package, but the relations are not always clear (c

Re: Dear Debian Maintainers (usability)

2004-06-07 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 04:47:56PM +0200, J. Preiss wrote: > It is great what you are doing. But the usability of debian itself... I get > the feeling that I'm too stupid to use it. > I do understand the installation stuff with apt-get, ok. If the package > configures itself, it may works. But w

Re: Dear Debian Maintainers (usability)

2004-06-07 Thread J. Preiss
Thank you for these guidelines. I just wanted to mention how difficult it is to have all these commands in mind. At least for a beginner. Am Montag, 7. Juni 2004 17:17 schrieb Andreas Janssen: > Hello > > J. Preiss (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > dpkg-reconfigure locales. I can select [EMAIL PRO

Re: Dear Debian Maintainers (usability)

2004-06-07 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello J. Preiss (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > dpkg-reconfigure locales. I can select [EMAIL PROTECTED], I can select this > as default. Additionally I have selected all DE-sets and all RU-sets. > At the end I have locales generated...l and my keyboard layout is > english :-( dpkg-reconfigure co

Dear Debian Maintainers (usability)

2004-06-07 Thread J. Preiss
It is great what you are doing. But the usability of debian itself... I get the feeling that I'm too stupid to use it. I do understand the installation stuff with apt-get, ok. If the package configures itself, it may works. But when I have to use dpk-reconfigure, I always wonder what the correc

Dear Debian Maintainers (usability)

2004-06-07 Thread J. Preiss
It is great what you are doing. But the usability of debian itself... I get the feeling that I'm too stupid to use it. I do understand the installation stuff with apt-get, ok. If the package configures itself, it may works. But when I have to use dpk-reconfigure, I always wonder what the correc