Re: [DNG] proposed changes: the results

2015-07-17 Thread hellekin
On 07/16/2015 11:41 PM, Franco Lanza wrote: What do you think about moving this way? *** Your proposals are very consensual and pregnant of the users' freedom of choice. This is a great way to enable an open system embracing variety and selection, and this should be kept in mind for other

Re: [DNG] vi for beginners

2015-07-17 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 17/07/2015 01:54, Adam Borowski a écrit : Then, you can use cat to display a file's contents, and sed or echo to edit needed files (typically /etc/apt/sources.list and /etc/network/interfaces) enough to let you apt-get install an usable editor. I've done this kind of things a few times

Re: [DNG] vi for beginners

2015-07-17 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 16/07/2015 23:24, Riccardo Boninsegna a écrit : A little shortcut from the extreme basics I know of vi: On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 4:39 PM, Rob Owens row...@ptd.net wrote: 6) Type the following, followed by hitting enter, in order to save and quit: :wq ZZ (uppercase) saves and quits, no

Re: [DNG] vi for beginners

2015-07-17 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 16/07/2015 20:41, Klaus Ethgen a écrit : I always get stessed if emacs get started on a new computer where I did not check the editor settings. Did it actually happen to you or did you have a nightmare? Did you experience a distro which installs it by default and makes it the default

Re: [DNG] vi for beginners

2015-07-17 Thread hellekin
On 07/16/2015 06:24 PM, Riccardo Boninsegna wrote: :wq ZZ (uppercase) saves and quits, no questions asked! :x also saves and exits. == hk -- _ _ We are free to share code and we code to share freedom (_X_)yne Foundation, Free Culture Foundry * https://www.dyne.org/donate/

Re: [DNG] vi for beginners

2015-07-17 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 02:40:31PM +0200, Didier Kryn wrote: Le 16/07/2015 20:41, Klaus Ethgen a écrit : I always get stessed if emacs get started on a new computer where I did not check the editor settings. Did it actually happen to you or did you have a nightmare? Did you experience a

Re: [DNG] proposed changes: the results

2015-07-17 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 12:36:46AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: Is ascii the set of 7 bit characters where space is 32 and tilde is 127, or does it have a different context in this email? It's an asteroid. So is Ceres, and, surprise, Jessie. -- hendrik

Re: [DNG] Proposed defaults changes

2015-07-17 Thread Steve Litt
On Fri, 17 Jul 2015 07:38:06 +0200 Adam Borowski kilob...@angband.pl wrote: On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 11:57:47PM +0200, Svante Signell wrote: I'm a long time *nix user/contributor and have never become comfortable with vi*, even after several tries. Which editor you like is personal, like

Re: [DNG] dng@lists.dyne.org

2015-07-17 Thread Steve Litt
On Fri, 17 Jul 2015 09:19:59 +0100 KatolaZ kato...@freaknet.org wrote: On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 07:22:49PM -0700, James Powell wrote: Yes, but I mean alts like s6, Runit, etc. In the past these were left to the users to make for themselves. For these to be viable, they need full script sets

Re: [DNG] devuan LTS

2015-07-17 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 10:49:49PM -0700, James Powell wrote: There is one thing I would recommend different that the standard Debian model. Release only the right amount of packages to create a working operating system under a complete installation, and dedicate the rest of all packages to

Re: [DNG] I am not using systemd and plan to avoid it

2015-07-17 Thread KatolaZ
On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 04:36:02PM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote: On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 08:33:48AM +0200, Michael Bütow wrote: Happy to say that after I voted it was 633 users for and 634 against (not planning to use it). Due to the construction of the poll, the plan to avoid figure

Re: [DNG] popcon submitter counts falling

2015-07-17 Thread Svante Signell
On Fri, 2015-07-17 at 09:25 +0200, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote: Has anybody seen this? http://popcon.debian.org/ https://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=coreutilsshow_installed=onwant_legend=onwant_ticks=ondate_fmt=%25Y-%25mbeenhere=1 What about this? systemd-sysv:

Re: [DNG] devuan LTS

2015-07-17 Thread Noel Torres
KatolaZ kato...@freaknet.org escribió: On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 09:57:08PM -0700, James Powell wrote: An LTS branch isn't needed if you do version controlled releases and sponsor support for versioned releases for at least 3-4 versions back. [cut] As releases mature, 1.0 would be

[DNG] popcon submitter counts falling

2015-07-17 Thread Dr. Nikolaus Klepp
Has anybody seen this? http://popcon.debian.org/ https://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=coreutilsshow_installed=onwant_legend=onwant_ticks=ondate_fmt=%25Y-%25mbeenhere=1 Nik -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA.

Re: [DNG] popcon submitter counts falling

2015-07-17 Thread Adam Borowski
On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 09:25:25AM +0200, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote: Has anybody seen this? http://popcon.debian.org/ https://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=coreutilsshow_installed=onwant_legend=onwant_ticks=ondate_fmt=%25Y-%25mbeenhere=1 The server-side piece is currently broken.

Re: [DNG] dng@lists.dyne.org

2015-07-17 Thread KatolaZ
On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 07:22:49PM -0700, James Powell wrote: Yes, but I mean alts like s6, Runit, etc. In the past these were left to the users to make for themselves. For these to be viable, they need full script sets ready to go. If one had infinite energy available, everything would be

Re: [DNG] devuan LTS

2015-07-17 Thread KatolaZ
On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 09:57:08PM -0700, James Powell wrote: An LTS branch isn't needed if you do version controlled releases and sponsor support for versioned releases for at least 3-4 versions back. [cut] As releases mature, 1.0 would be maintained until the fourth or fifth release

Re: [DNG] Proposed defaults changes

2015-07-17 Thread jce
On 07/17/2015 06:18 AM, Steve Litt wrote: Do you use joe by any chance? After Wordstar on my Kaypro 2x, I used Wordstar keystrokes in the Borland products for years. joe is a much more capable editor than nano, but just as lightweight and easy to use. It has full block select/copy/move/delete

Re: [DNG] devuan LTS

2015-07-17 Thread James Powell
The core of any distribution is very akin to what you could draw from an LFS book, with some reasonable extras like those with Gentoo/Funtoo to create not just a basic core system, but a working base model. Yes, it could be very easy to maintain, and keep tools stable for long periods.

Re: [DNG] I am not using systemd and plan to avoid it

2015-07-17 Thread James Powell
I care that my PID1 isn't going to have an instance where it could crash by doing something it shouldn't, and bloat itself in my virtual memory. Sent from my Windows Phone From: KatolaZmailto:kato...@freaknet.org Sent: ‎7/‎17/‎2015 1:13 AM To: Gregory

Re: [DNG] devuan LTS

2015-07-17 Thread KatolaZ
On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 02:41:58AM -0700, James Powell wrote: The core of any distribution is very akin to what you could draw from an LFS book, with some reasonable extras like those with Gentoo/Funtoo to create not just a basic core system, but a working base model. Yes, it could be very

Re: [DNG] devuan LTS

2015-07-17 Thread KatolaZ
On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 09:09:10AM +, Noel Torres wrote: [cut] It sounds like Slackware, and there is a clear reason why I have been using Debian and not Slackware. I believe that the stable-testing-unstable-experimental organisation is working already fine. We can discuss whether we

Re: [DNG] devuan LTS

2015-07-17 Thread Stephanie Daugherty
On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 1:50 AM James Powell james4...@hotmail.com wrote: There is one thing I would recommend different that the standard Debian model. Release only the right amount of packages to create a working operating system under a complete installation, and dedicate the rest of all

Re: [DNG] devuan LTS

2015-07-17 Thread Patrick Erdmann
On 17.07.2015 11:25, Stephanie Daugherty wrote: On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 1:50 AM James Powell james4...@hotmail.com mailto:james4...@hotmail.com wrote: There is one thing I would recommend different that the standard Debian model. Release only the right amount of packages to create a

Re: [DNG] Proposed defaults changes

2015-07-17 Thread T.J. Duchene
On Fri, 17 Jul 2015 09:04:43 -0700 jce j...@riseup.net wrote: But as far as the vi vs. nano as *default* editor thing, I think nano would generate a lot less how do I get out of this thing? traffic for devuan support. Gentlemen, please excuse me if this seems blunt - but - I think the

Re: [DNG] Proposed defaults changes

2015-07-17 Thread ibid . ag
On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 07:38:06AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 11:57:47PM +0200, Svante Signell wrote: I'm a long time *nix user/contributor and have never become comfortable with vi*, even after several tries. Which editor you like is personal, like the food you

Re: [DNG] popcon submitter counts falling

2015-07-17 Thread Martial Bornet (gmail)
Maybe a part of the answer : http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/214575/popcon-failed-is-the-mailto-address-busted Martial Bornet tel : 06 13 33 52 77 site : http://www.bornet.fr/ On 07/17/2015 09:25 AM, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote: Has anybody seen this? http://popcon.debian.org/

Re: [DNG] Mate

2015-07-17 Thread T.J. Duchene
On Fri, 17 Jul 2015 13:17:15 -0500 Stanley Webb sw...@cumbytel.com wrote: Will it be possible to install *.deb's in Devuan? I ask because I like the Mate desktop, and they offer deb installs at their site mate-desktop.org. also libreoffice offers deb at their site www.libreoffice.org. Hi

[DNG] Mate

2015-07-17 Thread Stanley Webb
Will it be possible to install *.deb's in Devuan? I ask because I like the Mate desktop, and they offer deb installs at their site mate-desktop.org. also libreoffice offers deb at their site www.libreoffice.org. Stan ___ Dng mailing list

Re: [DNG] Mate

2015-07-17 Thread James Powell
If they don't use systemd dependencies then yes, otherwise, no. Sent from my Windows Phone From: Stanley Webbmailto:sw...@cumbytel.com Sent: ‎7/‎17/‎2015 11:17 AM To: Dng@lists.dyne.orgmailto:Dng@lists.dyne.org Subject: [DNG] Mate Will it be possible to install

Re: [DNG] dng@lists.dyne.org

2015-07-17 Thread ibid . ag
On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 01:52:56PM -0500, T.J. Duchene wrote: KatolaZ: You guys talk about supporting half a dozen init systems like it was similar to providing half a dozen different editors, which believe me is not quite the case. This is true, because supporting an init system

[DNG] Packaging systems

2015-07-17 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 12:06:59PM -0700, James Powell wrote: It's not just that, but why are there so many broken down packages? -bin, -dev, -meta, -src, -lib, -doc, etc. my God do we need this many? Many distributions use just one all inclusive package to avoid problems unless its a

Re: [DNG] devuan LTS

2015-07-17 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 11:19:50AM +0100, KatolaZ wrote: The only feasible way I can see to make anything similar to what you seem to have in mind is by using BSD-like ports for non-core components. It is impossible for the ancillary stuff (whatever it means) to remain in sync with the core

Re: [DNG] dng@lists.dyne.org

2015-07-17 Thread KatolaZ
On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 12:06:59PM -0700, James Powell wrote: It's not just that, but why are there so many broken down packages? -bin, -dev, -meta, -src, -lib, -doc, etc. my God do we need this many? Many distributions use just one all inclusive package to avoid problems unless its a

Re: [DNG] many packages VS. one package, was: Re: dng@lists.dyne.org

2015-07-17 Thread Peter Olson
On July 17, 2015 at 11:38 PM Gregory Nowak g...@gregn.net wrote: On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 08:16:06PM -0700, James Powell wrote: Some might ask, Why not just one simple package? That's where Devuan can bring packaging sanity in as well. megabyte for example. Granted, this may not be

Re: [DNG] dng@lists.dyne.org

2015-07-17 Thread James Powell
I never said it was set in stone. All I suggested was if you install a package like SDL, then you install all of SDL, not just part of it. This reduces overhead of making multiple packages, simplifies the distribution, and makes the work of the package maintainer easier. To a new person using

[DNG] many packages VS. one package, was: Re: dng@lists.dyne.org

2015-07-17 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 08:16:06PM -0700, James Powell wrote: I never said it was set in stone. All I suggested was if you install a package like SDL, then you install all of SDL, not just part of it. This reduces overhead of making multiple packages, simplifies the distribution, and makes

Re: [DNG] popcon submitter counts falling

2015-07-17 Thread Daniel Reurich
On 17/07/15 20:57, Svante Signell wrote: On Fri, 2015-07-17 at 09:25 +0200, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote: Has anybody seen this? http://popcon.debian.org/ https://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=coreutilsshow_installed=onwant_legend=onwant_ticks=ondate_fmt=%25Y-%25mbeenhere=1 What about

Re: [DNG] dng@lists.dyne.org

2015-07-17 Thread Steve Litt
On Fri, 17 Jul 2015 09:56:00 -0400 Hendrik Boom hend...@topoi.pooq.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 09:27:05AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: On Fri, 17 Jul 2015 09:19:59 +0100 KatolaZ kato...@freaknet.org wrote: That wasn't what I was saying at all. I think something got lost in the

Re: [DNG] dng@lists.dyne.org

2015-07-17 Thread KatolaZ
On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 03:19:06PM -0700, James Powell wrote: It is diverse bur equally its overbearing to weed through sub-packages to get the right package you need. Ports are packages from source. Gentoo, Funtoo, and CRUX all use packages built and installed from source, and only meet

Re: [DNG] proposed changes: the results

2015-07-17 Thread Richard
Great! Chévere! Thank you! ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] dng@lists.dyne.org

2015-07-17 Thread T.J. Duchene
To: ibid...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [DNG] dng@lists.dyne.org Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2015 16:46:11 -0500 X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.11.1 (GTK+ 2.24.28; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) On Fri, 17 Jul 2015 12:38:47 -0700 ibid...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not sure what you mean by alternative package chains. Multiple

Re: [DNG] dng@lists.dyne.org

2015-07-17 Thread James Powell
It is diverse bur equally its overbearing to weed through sub-packages to get the right package you need. Ports are packages from source. Gentoo, Funtoo, and CRUX all use packages built and installed from source, and only meet dependencies for which you the system administrator has choice