On Wed, 15 Oct 2014 14:01:44 -0700
Bob Holtzman hol...@cox.net wrote:
What I read of your post wasn't dissent. It was character
assassination.
Please let me know how to point out that an idiotic behaviour is disruptive
to the whole process, without actually telling the person in question,
also sprach David L. Craig dlc@gmail.com [2014-10-14 00:16 +0200]:
Jessie may need to be widely considered the Vista of Debian
releases before a majority of DDs are willing to revisit the init
default.
Meanwhile, everyone who thinks this was the wrong decision should
work to ensure that
On Thursday 16 October 2014 07:55:40 Anders Wegge Keller wrote:
On Wed, 15 Oct 2014 14:01:44 -0700
Bob Holtzman hol...@cox.net wrote:
What I read of your post wasn't dissent. It was character
assassination.
Please let me know how to point out that an idiotic behaviour is
disruptive to
On Thu, 16 Oct 2014 11:38:59 +0100
Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thursday 16 October 2014 07:55:40 Anders Wegge Keller wrote:
On Wed, 15 Oct 2014 14:01:44 -0700
Bob Holtzman hol...@cox.net wrote:
What I read of your post wasn't dissent. It was character
assassination.
On Thursday 16 October 2014 11:46:46 Anders Wegge Keller wrote:
On Thu, 16 Oct 2014 11:38:59 +0100
Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thursday 16 October 2014 07:55:40 Anders Wegge Keller wrote:
On Wed, 15 Oct 2014 14:01:44 -0700
Bob Holtzman hol...@cox.net wrote:
What I
On Thu, 16 Oct 2014 11:59:24 +0100
Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote:
My golly, you are an arrogant self-opinionated individual. As well as
misinformed and mistaken.
Thank you for those kind words. However, I think you are undermining your
attempt at establishing your moral superiority,
On 10/16/2014 at 06:17 AM, martin f krafft wrote:
also sprach David L. Craig dlc@gmail.com [2014-10-14 00:16
+0200]:
Jessie may need to be widely considered the Vista of Debian
releases before a majority of DDs are willing to revisit the init
default.
Meanwhile, everyone who thinks
also sprach The Wanderer wande...@fastmail.fm [2014-10-16 15:12 +0200]:
The people who voted to make systemd the default init system
presumably think that it already does meet Debian standards, at
least to within acceptable tolerances.
I don't think this is the case. The CTTE's decision was
On Ma, 14 oct 14, 18:11:31, Anders Wegge Keller wrote:
I'll never hear from you again, as you are clearly getting a kick out of
fuelling the flames.
I can assure you it is not my intention to fuel the flames, though this
doesn't mean I couldn't be doing it anyway, inadvertently.
I hereby
On Mi, 15 oct 14, 15:34:22, Andrew McGlashan wrote:
I'm not so sure that squeeze-lts will be supported well enough for long
enough. Hopefully wheezy gets good support with a wheezy-lts.
From https://wiki.debian.org/LTS
Companies using Debian who are interested in aiding this effort
On Wed, 15 Oct 2014 04:07:25 +1100
Scott Ferguson scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com wrote:
Given that your only contribution to the list is outright and offensive
hypocrisy why should you not be rightfully dismissed as an abusive and
offensive poster who contributes nothing to the subject.
On 15/10/14 18:43, Anders Wegge Keller wrote:
On Wed, 15 Oct 2014 04:07:25 +1100 Scott Ferguson
scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com wrote:
Given that your only contribution to the list is outright and
offensive hypocrisy why should you not be rightfully dismissed as
an abusive and
On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 09:43:00AM +0200, Anders Wegge Keller wrote:
On Wed, 15 Oct 2014 04:07:25 +1100
Scott Ferguson scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com wrote:
Given that your only contribution to the list is outright and offensive
hypocrisy why should you not be rightfully dismissed as
On 10/15/2014 12:34 AM, Andrew McGlashan wrote:
That's a problem in itself. There should be room for real discussion as
is taking place here on the debian-user list, without fear of having
posts filtered.
I agree, but they (the moderators) have a vested interest when someone
posts something
Ric Moore wrote:
On 10/15/2014 12:34 AM, Andrew McGlashan wrote:
That's a problem in itself. There should be room for real discussion as
is taking place here on the debian-user list, without fear of having
posts filtered.
I agree, but they (the moderators) have a vested interest when
On 10/13/2014 05:16 PM, David L. Craig wrote:
On 14Oct14:0837+1100, Andrew McGlashan wrote:
On 14/10/2014 8:32 AM, John Hasler wrote:
Andrei POPESCU writes:
Without an accurate count I'd say only about 1% (or less) of the
subscribers are actually participating in these discussion.
1%
On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 12:49:31AM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote:
Chris Bannister wrote:
On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 07:45:03PM +0200, Anders Wegge Keller wrote:
It seems that there's a lot of controversy about the SysV-replacement that
should not be named. Most, if not all of the arguments for,
Chris Bannister wrote:
On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 12:49:31AM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote:
Chris Bannister wrote:
On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 07:45:03PM +0200, Anders Wegge Keller wrote:
It seems that there's a lot of controversy about the SysV-replacement that
should not be named. Most, if not all
Chris Bannister wrote:
On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 12:49:31AM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote:
Chris Bannister wrote:
On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 07:45:03PM +0200, Anders Wegge Keller wrote:
It seems that there's a lot of controversy about the SysV-replacement that
should not be named. Most, if not all
On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 07:01:33AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
I suspect any list with offtopic in its name will get ignored when there
is a large number of people want to say something about a specific topic.
Would a list whose address was debian-user-newfeatures be more attractive?
Are
On 10/13/2014 at 05:52 PM, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 08:40:38AM +1100, Andrew McGlashan wrote:
Vocal minority, looking after the interests of many more whom will
be yet to learn of the facts at some stage.
Don't confuse facts and opinions. You seem to be
On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 08:47:28AM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote:
Why? Help and discussion among users of Debian seems like a perfectly
good description and scope, of long standing.
That is true, but look at the confusion it causes --- it gives the
impression that anything can be discussed
Chris Bannister writes:
I thought there was a difference between a closed list (only
subscribers can post) and a moderated list (each post is scrutinised
for eligibility) --- or have I got the wrong end of the stick?
This list is evidently open and mechanically moderated. Anyone can try
to
On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 09:31:19AM -0500, John Hasler wrote:
Chris Bannister writes:
I thought there was a difference between a closed list (only
subscribers can post) and a moderated list (each post is scrutinised
for eligibility) --- or have I got the wrong end of the stick?
This list
On 10/14/2014 at 10:53 AM, Chris Bannister wrote:
On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 09:31:19AM -0500, John Hasler wrote:
Chris Bannister writes:
I thought there was a difference between a closed list (only
subscribers can post) and a moderated list (each post is
scrutinised for eligibility) --- or
On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 03:53:48AM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote:
On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 09:31:19AM -0500, John Hasler wrote:
Chris Bannister writes:
I thought there was a difference between a closed list (only
subscribers can post) and a moderated list (each post is scrutinised
for
Chris Bannister wrote:
On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 03:53:48AM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote:
On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 09:31:19AM -0500, John Hasler wrote:
Chris Bannister writes:
I thought there was a difference between a closed list (only
subscribers can post) and a moderated list (each post is
On Mon, 13 Oct 2014 22:43:48 +0300
Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote:
There's -offtopic (see my .sig), but apparently the anti-systemd crowd
wants an audience :(
Stop your condescending tone, and make your self useful by reading a book
about change mangament. I don't know who you
On Tuesday 14 October 2014 17:11:31 Anders Wegge Keller wrote:
On Mon, 13 Oct 2014 22:43:48 +0300
Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote:
There's -offtopic (see my .sig), but apparently the anti-systemd crowd
wants an audience :(
Stop your condescending tone, and make your self
On Tue, 14 Oct 2014 17:33:55 +0100
Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote:
This to one of our best and most measured contributors. It's enough to
make one weep.
He could have been the pope. His attitude is part of the problem, not the
solution. If you have read the book about change
Miles Fidelman writes:
- unclear posting policy:
--- says it's open (anyone can post) - but haven't actually tested whether
it really means subscribers-only (note, some Debian lists are actually
fully open - for example debian-boot is both a list and the contact address
for the installer
On 15/10/14 03:11, Anders Wegge Keller wrote:
On Mon, 13 Oct 2014 22:43:48 +0300
Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote:
There's -offtopic (see my .sig), but apparently the anti-systemd crowd
wants an audience :(
Stop your condescending tone,
On 2014-10-14, John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com wrote:
Moderation usually means that some natural person reads and approves
or disapproves every item. That's clearly not the case here. What the
actual policy is, as you say, unclear. It appears that the listmasters
occasionally block a
On 10/14/2014 12:40 PM, Anders Wegge Keller wrote:
I do not want to hear from someone acting out of a misplaced sense of
loyalty. I want someone who actually is capable of seeing why elitism isn't
going to save Debian in this case, to come forward, and create a place where
the issue can be
Anders Wegge Keller wrote:
On Mon, 13 Oct 2014 22:43:48 +0300
Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote:
There's -offtopic (see my .sig), but apparently the anti-systemd crowd
wants an audience :(
Stop your condescending tone,
CAREFUL, you insert foot-in-mouth past clavicle
...
On Tue, 14 Oct 2014 15:17:27 -0500
Richard Owlett rowl...@cloud85.net wrote:
Anders Wegge Keller wrote:
On Mon, 13 Oct 2014 22:43:48 +0300
Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote:
There's -offtopic (see my .sig), but apparently the anti-systemd
crowd wants an audience :(
On Tue, 14 Oct 2014 18:11:31 +0200
Anders Wegge Keller we...@wegge.dk wrote:
... make your self useful by reading a
book about change mangament.
Without in any way endorsing or criticizing anything else that's
happened in this thread, I'd like to ask what are some relatively simple
change
Anders Wegge Keller we...@wegge.dk:
On Tue, 14 Oct 2014 17:33:55 +0100
Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote:
This to one of our best and most measured contributors. It's enough to
make one weep.
He could have been the pope. His attitude is part of the problem, not the
I didn't
Curt cu...@free.fr:
Given the number of retarded posts we've seen in the last couple of
weeks, you might think things would be cooled off by now, but no.
This's DU. This sort of thing is expected, even welcomed. People
expressing passionate opinions wrt their choice of software? Great!
On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 06:11:31PM +0200, Anders Wegge Keller wrote:
On Mon, 13 Oct 2014 22:43:48 +0300
Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote:
There's -offtopic (see my .sig), but apparently the anti-systemd crowd
wants an audience :(
Stop your condescending tone, and make
On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 06:40:01PM +0200, Anders Wegge Keller wrote:
On Tue, 14 Oct 2014 17:33:55 +0100
Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote:
This to one of our best and most measured contributors. It's enough to
make one weep.
He could have been the pope. His attitude is part of the
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On 14/10/2014 11:01 PM, Richard Owlett wrote:
I suspect any list with offtopic in its name will get ignored when
there is a large number of people want to say something about a specific
topic.
Absolutely, it helps hide problems under the rug, so
It seems that there's a lot of controversy about the SysV-replacement that
should not be named. Most, if not all of the arguments for, as well as
against seem to be of a philosophical, rather than stringent technichnical
nature. As such, they are probably not suited for this list. So my question
On 10/13/14, Anders Wegge Keller we...@wegge.dk wrote:
It seems that there's a lot of controversy about the SysV-replacement that
should not be named. Most, if not all of the arguments for, as well as
against seem to be of a philosophical, rather than stringent technichnical
nature. As such,
On Mon, 13 Oct 2014 19:45:03 +0200
Anders Wegge Keller we...@wegge.dk wrote:
It seems that there's a lot of controversy about the
SysV-replacement that should not be named. Most, if not all of the
arguments for, as well as against seem to be of a philosophical,
rather than stringent
On Lu, 13 oct 14, 19:45:03, Anders Wegge Keller wrote:
It seems that there's a lot of controversy about the SysV-replacement that
should not be named. Most, if not all of the arguments for, as well as
against seem to be of a philosophical, rather than stringent technichnical
nature. As such,
On Lu, 13 oct 14, 14:56:38, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote:
At first quick glance over, didn't find advocacy per se (by name),
but did see a possibility in debian-publicity:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-publicity/
Please don't, that list is for publicity of Debian (writing the Debian
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On 14/10/2014 6:43 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
On Lu, 13 oct 14, 19:45:03, Anders Wegge Keller wrote:
It seems that there's a lot of controversy about the
SysV-replacement that should not be named. Most, if not all of
the arguments for, as well as
On Ma, 14 oct 14, 06:53:12, Andrew McGlashan wrote:
That list is basically irrelevant, no traffic at all, virtually.
That only happens because people insist on posting off-topic stuff to
-user instead of -offtopic.
Kind regards,
Andrei
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On 14/10/2014 7:18 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
On Ma, 14 oct 14, 06:53:12, Andrew McGlashan wrote:
That list is basically irrelevant, no traffic at all, virtually.
That only happens because people insist on posting off-topic stuff
to -user
On Ma, 14 oct 14, 08:00:46, Andrew McGlashan wrote:
Clearly though, when so many people have strong views against a
decision that they think is wrong, such as something significant as
systemd well we've just got to deal with it too;
According to https://lists.debian.org/stats/ there
Andrei POPESCU writes:
Without an accurate count I'd say only about 1% (or less) of the
subscribers are actually participating in these discussion.
1% participation in any discussion on a list such as this would be very
large. Passing a GR to take Debian closed-source and relicense
everything
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On 14/10/2014 8:32 AM, John Hasler wrote:
Andrei POPESCU writes:
Without an accurate count I'd say only about 1% (or less) of the
subscribers are actually participating in these discussion.
1% participation in any discussion on a list such as
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On 14/10/2014 8:19 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
In my opinion this is the very definition of vocal minority.
Vocal minority, looking after the interests of many more whom will be
yet to learn of the facts at some stage. but otherwise have no
On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 08:40:38AM +1100, Andrew McGlashan wrote:
Vocal minority, looking after the interests of many more whom will be
yet to learn of the facts at some stage.
Don't confuse facts and opinions. You seem to be labouring under the assumption
that your opinions are right and
Sorry, John. I clicked reply instead of pressing l.
On Monday 13 October 2014 22:32:15 John Hasler wrote:
Andrei POPESCU writes:
Without an accurate count I'd say only about 1% (or less) of the
subscribers are actually participating in these discussion.
1% participation in any discussion
to discuss
bugs and technical issues, is it not?
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On 14Oct14:0837+1100, Andrew McGlashan wrote:
On 14/10/2014 8:32 AM, John Hasler wrote:
Andrei POPESCU writes:
Without an accurate count I'd say only about 1% (or less) of the
subscribers are actually participating in these discussion.
1% participation in any discussion on a list
Jonathan Dowland wrote:
On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 08:40:38AM +1100, Andrew McGlashan wrote:
Vocal minority, looking after the interests of many more whom will be
yet to learn of the facts at some stage.
Don't confuse facts and opinions. You seem to be labouring under the assumption
that your
David L. Craig wrote:
On 14Oct14:0837+1100, Andrew McGlashan wrote:
On 14/10/2014 8:32 AM, John Hasler wrote:
Andrei POPESCU writes:
Without an accurate count I'd say only about 1% (or less) of the
subscribers are actually participating in these discussion.
1% participation in any
On Mon 13 Oct 2014 at 15:07:33 -0700, Buntunub wrote:
This list is the perfect place for such things. The decision to make Systemd
default in Jessie was done by the Technical Committee, not by general vote,
so I guess it was decided that the whole discussion about Systemd is a bug
because it
On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 7:35 AM, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote:
On Mon 13 Oct 2014 at 15:07:33 -0700, Buntunub wrote:
This list is the perfect place for such things. The decision to make Systemd
default in Jessie was done by the Technical Committee, not by general vote,
so I guess it was
On Mon, 13 Oct 2014 23:18:01 +0300
Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote:
On Ma, 14 oct 14, 06:53:12, Andrew McGlashan wrote:
That list is basically irrelevant, no traffic at all, virtually.
That only happens because people insist on posting off-topic stuff to
-user instead of
On Tue 14 Oct 2014 at 08:02:28 +0900, Joel Rees wrote:
On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 7:35 AM, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote:
On Mon 13 Oct 2014 at 15:07:33 -0700, Buntunub wrote:
This list is the perfect place for such things. The decision to make
Systemd
default in Jessie was done by
On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 8:14 AM, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote:
On Tue 14 Oct 2014 at 08:02:28 +0900, Joel Rees wrote:
On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 7:35 AM, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote:
On Mon 13 Oct 2014 at 15:07:33 -0700, Buntunub wrote:
This list is the perfect place for such
On 10/13/2014 07:14 PM, Brian wrote:
On Tue 14 Oct 2014 at 08:02:28 +0900, Joel Rees wrote:
On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 7:35 AM, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote:
On Mon 13 Oct 2014 at 15:07:33 -0700, Buntunub wrote:
This list is the perfect place for such things. The decision to make Systemd
On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 07:45:03PM +0200, Anders Wegge Keller wrote:
It seems that there's a lot of controversy about the SysV-replacement that
should not be named. Most, if not all of the arguments for, as well as
against seem to be of a philosophical, rather than stringent technichnical
Chris Bannister wrote:
On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 07:45:03PM +0200, Anders Wegge Keller wrote:
It seems that there's a lot of controversy about the SysV-replacement that
should not be named. Most, if not all of the arguments for, as well as
against seem to be of a philosophical, rather than
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Pigeon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
That's weird - that Knoppix has problems with 3Com network cards but
boot-floppies can cope OK. I like these cards because they Just Work.
I tend to prefer the RTL-8139 based cards because everything supports
them.
On (21/10/04 14:59), s. keeling wrote:
Incoming from William Ballard:
On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 12:16:21PM -0700, Gilbert, Joseph wrote:
session and found that KDE had autodetected my sound card. You may want to
have them give Sarge a try. It may be a lot easier than even you suspect...
On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 03:28:05PM -0400, William Ballard wrote:
And I spent a month getting all Debian's eyecandy and hardware
acceleration working. And mutt was ridiculous at first compared to
Outlook.
You can say that again!!! It is funny as hell to look back at how
foreign it felt
%% Andy Firman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
af He loves the feeling of browsing the repository, picking out games
af and educational tools for his kids, and having me install with
af apt-get.
Why do you have to install it? Put Synaptic onto his system, then he
can install anything he wants
William Ballard wrote:
My brother in law and nephew are above-average with computer skills but
not C programmers. Both are resistant to trying the Knoppix CD I burned
for them because I told them it's going to be really hard for them to
get their sound card or network card or what have you
William Ballard wrote:
On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 01:05:04PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
Actually, you did (but not deliberately). Knoppix (from at least this
year) gets both up and running automagically. Get them the newest
Knoppix, and next time you're over there to fix their Windows system
again,
On Fri, 22 Oct 2004, Andy Firman wrote:
Now he is bragging about it to all the other Cops at the Police
Department and they all want Linux desktops now.
I thought the subject implied that they had lives too.
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On 10/21/04 15:20, William Ballard wrote:
My brother in law and nephew are above-average with computer skills
but not C programmers. Both are resistant to trying the Knoppix CD I
burned for them because I told them it's going to be really hard for
them to get their sound card or network card or
My brother in law and nephew are above-average with computer skills but
not C programmers. Both are resistant to trying the Knoppix CD I burned
for them because I told them it's going to be really hard for them to
get their sound card or network card or what have you working -- I
didn't lie
to
have them give Sarge a try. It may be a lot easier than even you suspect...
keep in mind, that is a may. :-)
Joe Gilbert
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [OT] Debian advocacy
On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 12:16:21PM -0700, Gilbert, Joseph wrote:
session and found that KDE had autodetected my sound card. You may want to
have them give Sarge a try. It may be a lot easier than even you suspect...
keep in mind, that is a may. :-)
This isn't a technical thing, so much as a
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [OT] Debian advocacy for Smart but Scared People With Lives
On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 12:16:21PM -0700, Gilbert, Joseph wrote:
session and found that KDE had autodetected my sound card.
You may want to
have them give Sarge a try. It may be a lot easier than even
you
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William Ballard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
My brother in law and nephew are above-average with computer skills but
not C programmers. Both are resistant to trying the Knoppix CD I burned
for them because I told them it's going to be really hard
Incoming from William Ballard:
On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 12:16:21PM -0700, Gilbert, Joseph wrote:
session and found that KDE had autodetected my sound card. You may want to
have them give Sarge a try. It may be a lot easier than even you suspect...
This isn't a technical thing, so much as
On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 01:05:04PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
Actually, you did (but not deliberately). Knoppix (from at least this
year) gets both up and running automagically. Get them the newest
Knoppix, and next time you're over there to fix their Windows system
again, throw Knoppix in
On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 04:48:51PM -0400, William Ballard wrote:
On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 01:05:04PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
Actually, you did (but not deliberately). Knoppix (from at least this
year) gets both up and running automagically. Get them the newest
Knoppix, and next time
Noah == Noah Sombrero [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Noah I can use symlinks, I can copy /usr to a new hd and mount the
Noah new hd as /usr. But these things could be unnecessary if a
Noah small amount of lee way were built into the system.
We appreciate tested patches.
manoj
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On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 06:32:37PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote:
On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 11:41:12PM -0800, Noah Sombrero wrote:
On Fri, 22 Mar 2002 21:27:21 -0600, you wrote:
Hmm, yes I can move those directories and replace them with links or
just mount them to appropriate dirs
On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 02:07:36PM -0800, Noah Sombrero wrote:
I have about 60 mb on /usr. A software installing session could use
that in nothing flat. I have plenty of room on /mnt, but I have to
install by hand to get anything there. Then X doesn't know
Symlinks are your friend.
noah
* Noah Sombrero ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
On Sat, 23 Mar 2002 18:32:37 -0600, you wrote:
[ Note: I read the list. I don't need nor do I want copies of mail
sent to the list. In this case you sent a copy to me with a different
message id than what went to the list; something is
On Sun, 24 Mar 2002 12:32:58 -0500, you wrote:
On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 02:07:36PM -0800, Noah Sombrero wrote:
I have about 60 mb on /usr. A software installing session could use
that in nothing flat. I have plenty of room on /mnt, but I have to
install by hand to get anything there. Then X
On Sun, 2002-03-24 at 20:08, Noah Sombrero wrote:
On Sun, 24 Mar 2002 12:32:58 -0500, you wrote:
On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 02:07:36PM -0800, Noah Sombrero wrote:
I have about 60 mb on /usr. A software installing session could use
that in nothing flat. I have plenty of room on /mnt, but I
On Mon, 2002-03-25 at 03:05, Noah Sombrero wrote:
On 24 Mar 2002 20:18:18 +, you wrote:
Do I understand that you want apt to detect when space is short on the
target device, and automatically generate symlinked mount points on
available devices with sufficient space?
If you've got
On 25 Mar 2002 03:20:04 +, you wrote:
No, I would just like to be able to specify an alternative destination in
the configuration somehow.
Do you mean in the same way as rpm --relocate foo.rpm ?
Don't have any experience with Red Hat.
Another person suggested that it is possible to
On Fri, 22 Mar 2002 18:35:01 -0600, you wrote:
From personal experience, installing things in /opt/foo and using
stow to link them to /usr/local sucks in many interesting ways (at
least on Solaris).
So don't think FHS mandates that because FHS is stupid.
I can manually install packages on
On Sat, 23 Mar 2002 03:13:49 -, you wrote:
hi,
couldn't you copy over /usr to a new drive and then mount the new drive to
/usr ???
Chris
I think that is the best suggestion that I have received. In fact, I probably
will
do that. But, my gut feeling is that computers should serve us
On Sat, 23 Mar 2002 13:32:00 -0800, Noah Sombrero wrote:
I don't understand your problem. Are you out of disc space, or did you
just mis-apportion your partitions? Either way the problem is not that
packagers set up their apps to reside in /usr. The problem is that you
need to re-partition or
I don't understand your problem. Are you out of disc space, or did you
just mis-apportion your partitions? Either way the problem is not that
packagers set up their apps to reside in /usr. The problem is that you
need to re-partition or get another disc.
Inflexibility in the face of limited
On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 11:41:12PM -0800, Noah Sombrero wrote:
On Fri, 22 Mar 2002 21:27:21 -0600, you wrote:
Hmm, yes I can move those directories and replace them with links or
just mount them to appropriate dirs under /usr. Did not think of that.
But still, apt has this little flaw
On Sat, 23 Mar 2002 18:32:37 -0600, you wrote:
[ Note: I read the list. I don't need nor do I want copies of mail
sent to the list. In this case you sent a copy to me with a different
message id than what went to the list; something is broken at your
end. Please respect my Mail-Followup-To:
On Fri, 22 Mar 2002 21:27:21 -0600, you wrote:
Hmm, yes I can move those directories and replace them with links or
just mount them to appropriate dirs under /usr. Did not think of that.
But still, apt has this little flaw it seems to me.
apt is flawed because your /usr/partition is too
On Fri, 22 Mar 2002 22:11:15 -0800, Noah Sombrero wrote:
On Sat, 23 Mar 2002 03:13:49 -, you wrote:
hi,
couldn't you copy over /usr to a new drive and then mount the new drive to
/usr ???
Chris
I think that is the best suggestion that I have received. In fact, I probably
will
do that.
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