The Midnight Commander (mc) is always nice to have. A very versatile
command-line graphical file manager.
$ ldd /usr/bin/mc
linux-gate.so.1 = (0xe000)
libslang.so.2 = /usr/lib/libslang.so.2 (0x4214b000)
libgpm.so.2 = /lib/libgpm.so.2 (0x4194d000)
On 3/25/11, Tux99 tux99-...@uridium.org wrote:
Quote: yves wrote on Fri, 25 March 2011 09:42
Hi,
QT4 is released since 2005, about... 6 years ?
So, why is it usefull to maintain a package that becomes depreciated
?
You are missing the
On 3/11/11, Pierre Jarillon jaril...@abul.org wrote:
A user does not want a player X or Y, we need only a player which works in
any case without any trouble.
Agreed. Part of the enjoyment of Linux is exploring the many, many
options for any application.
A novice will be happy with an app
On 3/7/11, Ahmad Samir ahmadsamir3...@gmail.com wrote:
I've found that if I put it in a read later folder/list/bookmark,
that there's a 70% chance that I'll I never read it :)
I manage my voluminous tabs by organising them by separate window.
When I have a window of links I wish to explore
On 3/6/11, Michael Scherer m...@zarb.org wrote:
So let's use upstream behavior, as this is what is documented
everywhere
( from official documentation to random tutorial of people ),
I can't disagree with your logic on this aspect and I support being in
sync with upstream. Why should
500 floppy disks?
On 3/5/11, Thomas Spuhler tho...@btspuhler.com wrote:
We are now using texlive and a require is texlive-texmf a 293 Mb download.
Is there any way to get around this. This package is not available to folks
that still have a dial-up connection. It takes 30 minutes on a dsl
I've always set mine to false.
When they open adjacent to the current tab (true) that always seems
like reverse order when reading a book. For example, click on the
links in a page that are page1, page2, page3 and so on in order. With
'true', the tabs show the pages in reverse order.
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Hoyt
On 3/3/11, andre999 and...@laposte.net wrote:
Personnally I like pse...@mageia.org, with real name and direct adresse
optional.
1) anyone who wants to can give a phony name anyway.
2) @mageia.org lessens the personal spam problem, and looks more
official as well. It will also give Mageia
They dropped older app due in part to ... it is in perl ...
Did all the perl-focused devs leave Mandriva? Aren't most of the
Mandriva-unique tools in perl?
On 3/2/11, Frank Griffin f...@roadrunner.com wrote:
After some back-and-forth in MDV bug
https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=62374 ,
I think moving to LVM as the default will create too many complaints and
support requests in the end.
I found it an annoyance in Fedora as a regular user.
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Hoyt
I also have a problem with mageia bugzilla.
While I have an account, have filed a few bug reports and have gotten
mail from bugzilla-dae...@mageia.org, I cannot log in to my account
and when I request a password change, I am told This email address is
not bound to an account. The address is
What bug did you fill ?
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46
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Hoyt
Just to note, I've had two (minor, cosmetic, web-page related) bugs
that I reported already fixed. Kudos!
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Hoyt
Here's my thinking-outside-of-the-box suggetsion.
Portmanteau
From Wikipedia:
Portmanteau comes from French porter, to carry + manteau, cloak
(from Old French mantel, from Latin mantellum). In modern French, a
portemanteau (or porte-manteaux) is a clothes valet, a coat-tree or
similar article
1. Leave them where they are for now (breaks less things) and
2. pursue standardization with freedesktop.org, then
3. adopt that standard.
Done in three.
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Hoyt
to maintain the status quo
(especially since this item is not obvious to the typical newbie user)
and frees time and resources for more pressing, if less ideological ,
needs.
On 1/19/11, Olivier Blin mag...@blino.org wrote:
Hoyt Duff hoytd...@gmail.com writes:
1. Leave them where
On 1/16/11, Olivier Thauvin nanar...@nanardon.zarb.org wrote:
So I am favor to import it with this name (we didn't rename RPM because
it mean RedHat Package Manager...).
At the risk of being called pedantic, RPM _now_ stands for RPM
Package Manager in all its GNU recursive acronym goodness
When I originally looked at rkhunter, it was unavailable in the
Mandriva repos, or at least the ones I had enabled for the machine I
was working on at the time. I see it's in contribs.
Oh, well . . .
Thanks!
On 1/14/11, Oliver Burger oliver@googlemail.com wrote:
Hoyt Duff hoytd
I posted this to the general list, but didn't receive any useful
comments so far.
I'm trying to learn a little about packaging and was attempting to
build source and binary packages from a tarball with an embedded .spec
file for rkhunter-1.3.8-1 and maybe submit it to Mageia with
appropriate
On 12/27/10, Maarten Vanraes maarten.vanr...@gmail.com wrote:
or packager could instead of doing all that work, fix it...
That would be ideal, but probably not realistic. Many bugs are to be
fixed upstream.
Perhaps no bugs should be imported and packager could follow MDV
Bugzilla to see if,
On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Maarten Vanraes
maarten.vanr...@gmail.com wrote:
Op maandag 27 december 2010 17:52:43 schreef Hoyt Duff:
On 12/27/10, Maarten Vanraes maarten.vanr...@gmail.com wrote:
or packager could instead of doing all that work, fix it...
That would be ideal
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 2:44 AM, Ernest N. Wilcox Jr. ewil...@bex.net wrote:
People who break laws are criminals - no ifs,
ands, or buts, about it.
People who break _criminal_ laws like murder and assault are criminals.
People who break _civil_ laws like traffic or zoning are not usually
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 7:43 AM, Michael Scherer m...@zarb.org wrote:
And that's not the question, this is a basic usability issue, if a
rather important portion of the users associate a word with something,
this sound sane to no reuse the same word to hold a different meaning in
a very
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 4:33 PM, Maarten Vanraes
maarten.vanr...@gmail.com wrote:
no negative meaning???
Paris Hilton anyone???
afaik any word has negative meaning...
Snooki makes her look like a nun.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicole_Polizzi
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Hoyt
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 7:04 PM, Michael Scherer m...@zarb.org wrote:
Le mardi 07 décembre 2010 à 00:10 +0100, Maarten Vanraes a écrit :
I find it strange that the most heavy threads here are naming issues...
http://bikeshed.com/ ?
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Michael Scherer
... a metaphor indicating that you
On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 1:59 PM, Maarten Vanraes
maarten.vanr...@gmail.com wrote:
Since the packages in that repository are there because they're
(potentially) encumbered by patents, why not call it for what it is,
encumbered?
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Erin
too difficult
I suppose that's why nobody liked
On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 4:12 PM, Maarten Vanraes
maarten.vanr...@gmail.com wrote:
Perhaps we need an unrelated word that has meaning to Mageia, but
infers uniqueness without being pejorative.
I suggest calling it the paris repository, a place for unique and
useful applications that cannot be
On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 4:33 AM, andre999 and...@laposte.net wrote:
Better than tainted :D
Tainted makes me chuckle -- crude anatomical reference.
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Hoyt
On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 10:26 AM, Wolfgang Bornath
molc...@googlemail.com wrote:
2010/12/2 Anssi Hannula anssi.hann...@iki.fi:
For the record, I'm not a big fan of tainted name (too negative), but
I can't think of anything better either, so... :)
I agree, as restricted may be misleading
On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 8:06 PM, Olivier Thauvin
nanar...@nanardon.zarb.org wrote:
I can't agree with the mirrors are free to not mirror this media,
three reasons:
The tainted repository is analogous to the current PLF repository, no?
Why can't Mageia handle it the same way? Then it does
On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Marc Paré m...@marcpare.com wrote:
I am a member of the Mageia marketing team and as well as a LibreOffice
marketing team member.
Thanks for any informtion.
Merci
Marc Paré
Could you employ your marketing-fu and come up with a better name than
the
On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 3:11 PM, andré and...@laposte.net wrote:
So far in simplified terms, for the education target, we have focus on
school boards in US/Canada and Australia/New Zealand; focus on regional
gov'ts in Germany.
Do you have a link to any Mandriva docs that detail how the package
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 10:15 PM, Ahmad Samir ahmadsamir3...@gmail.com wrote:
If upstream can't accomplish this in their apps, how do you expect
downstream to do it?
Easy. Both upstream and downstream should obey the $BROWSER
environment variable.
Yeah, should :)
Then you should file a
Choosing a target market is more than making a listing of your
competitors' markets and combining some words to create a
unique-sounding market. And it's more that guessing that some
as-yet-unidentified market can be grepped from the imagination. For
Mageia, it's an expression of leadership. It
On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 8:39 PM, Thierry Vignaud
thierry.vign...@gmail.com wrote:
Hum, we lack that particular ISO there:
http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/mandriva-prehistory/
Olivier Guillaume might be interested...
I might still have 5.2 and others you are missing. Want
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