tracking bug for ext4

2008-11-04 Thread shirish
Hi all, I made a tracking bug for having ext4 as the primary filesystem in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub/+bug/293465 Perhaps the description and stuff can be overhauled. As a simple generic desktop user having an online defragger and better journaling, data integrity is

Re: tracking bug for ext4

2008-11-04 Thread John Dong
Please stop filing nonsense bugs without first understanding the situation. ext4 will become the default filesystem once upstream recommends it for adoption (i.e. 2.6.28). GRUB still does not support reading ext4 so we will probably need a separate /boot on ext2/ext3, or wait for one of the SoC

Re: Ubuntu Open Week!

2008-11-04 Thread Jon
Jono Bacon wrote: Hi everyone, Just a quick note to let you know that Ubuntu Open Week has been announced for the week of Mon 3 Nov - Fri 7 Nov in #ubuntu-classroom on Freenode. Ubuntu Open Week is a week of IRC tuition and Q+A sessions all about getting involved in the rock-and-roll

Re: rename system-cleaner-gtk to cruft-remover-gtk

2008-11-04 Thread Justin M. Wray
Just to be clear, that was my point: just because a package is installed from a deb and not a repo does not mean it is unwanted/unneeded/cruft. But if people are installing apps from other sources, maybe we should include such packages in the official repos/sources, etc. Clearly this is not

Re: rename system-cleaner-gtk to cruft-remover-gtk

2008-11-04 Thread Markus Hitter
Am 03.11.2008 um 13:35 schrieb Lars Wirzenius: ma, 2008-11-03 kello 12:49 +0100, Markus Hitter kirjoitti: To add my own $ o.o2, I'd very much like to see a tool or Synaptic feature which tells me about the differences between a standard install and the current set of installed packages.

Re: finding out if network-manager has published online/offline status?

2008-11-04 Thread Chris Coulson
2008/11/4 Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 13:00 -0500, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 07:13 -0500, Matt Price wrote: hi, i just reported a bug on evolution (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evolution/+bug/293046) that, on reflection,

Re: rename system-cleaner-gtk to cruft-remover-gtk

2008-11-04 Thread shirish
Hi all, The above post gives me another idea. What do people think of using the same tool to sending those package names which are not in the archive (which people are say using from other sources) to add weight to needs-packaging request of the same package. Of course, this would need :- a.

Re: how to exclude --.gvfs from disturbing stuff

2008-11-04 Thread John Dong
That error comes from lsof which cannot access ~/.gvfs because root != shirish. Pass -w into lsof to suppress that warning. On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 8:51 AM, shirish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Please look at this bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gvfs/+bug/225361 . Now I'm