Re: Change what is considered by apt-get as major amount of disk space

. Then it was streamlined to show a prompt only if the packages about to be installed are just the packages the user specified on the command line, i.e. if there aren't any additional dependencies or conflicts that could be surprising to the user. Marius Gedminas -- Microsoft is not the answer

Re: Updater can't update kernel due to disk space

mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss Marius Gedminas -- Learning Perl is actually a very well-written book for beginning programmers. The only thing wrong with it is it's about Perl

Re: apt and pdiff files

://blog.ganneff.de/blog/2008/09/01/pdiffs-1.html Marius Gedminas -- Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo. - Andy Finkel, computer guy signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: Different behaviour between bzr builddeb and pbuilder-dist

the file doesn't exist. Marius Gedminas -- ...the only place for 63,000 bugs is a rain forest signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu

Re: The place of the Ubuntu Software Center regarding Steam, Desura and others

/630730 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alacarte/+bug/630730;, closed as Fix Released two years ago. I don't think that's the bug you meant to reference. (I've often wondered whether introducing a checksum digit into Launchpad bug numbers would be a good idea.) Marius Gedminas -- I used

Re: server went unbootable

be possible to start it as soon as all *local* filesystems are mounted. Feel free to file a bug about that. Filed https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openssh/+bug/975985 since I also would find it welcome. Marius Gedminas -- Special bonus feature: absolutely nowhere in RetchMail's code

Re: Lucid - Precise trouble with do-release-upgrade

have anything suspicious like a stack trace; there were no segfault notices in dmesg). Should I have? Marius Gedminas -- This host is a black hole at HTTP wavelengths. GETs go in, and nothing comes out, not even Hawking radiation. -- Graaagh the Mighty

Re: Ability to set correct DPI in 12.04 (still forced to 96?)

://blogs.gnome.org/danni/2011/12/15/more-on-dpi/ http://www.fooishbar.org/blog/tech/x/dpi-2011-12-07-04-35.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2011-October/157671.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2011-October/157760.html Marius Gedminas -- Cheap, Fast, Good -- pick two

Re: help compiling unity.

. It sounds like Unity trunk needs a newer version of nux than is available in Oneiric. Marius Gedminas -- This message has been ROT-13 encrypted twice for higher security. signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: update-manager dropped from repository; friendly update method?

? Marius Gedminas -- Programs that write programs are the happiest programs in the world. -- Andrew Hume signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com

Re: Split all documentation into their own packages

|| true find /usr/share/doc -empty -delete || true instead of piping filenames through |xargs rm/rmdir? Marius Gedminas -- Go not unto the Usenet for advice, for you will be told both yea and nay (and quite a few things that just have nothing at all to do with the question). signature.asc

Re: Postfix authentication default configuration

to put it on http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/? Marius Gedminas -- MCSE == Marginal Computer Software Enthusiast signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com

Re: Huge instability and insanely large memory footprint in 9.04

2011, which I couldn't ask for more. Please don't let Ubuntu go to this sad path. Thank you. Marius Gedminas -- Suppose you went back to Ada Lovelace and asked her the difference between a script and a program. She'd probably look at you funny, then say something like: Well, a script is what

Re: CPU Frequency Scaling and Niceness

information should I attach to the bug report? Why is it a bug? According to Matthew Garrett, to save power, you want to finish executing a task as soon as possible, which means running for a shorter time at 100% speed. http://mjg59.livejournal.com/88608.html Marius Gedminas -- Perl

Re: ssh-add /dev/null and SSH_ASKPASS

$SSH_AGENT_PID ]; then # See if ssh-agent has any identities, and if not, add some ssh-add -l /dev/null || ssh-add fi exec /usr/bin/ssh $@ If you change it to invoke ssh-add /dev/null and put it somewhere in $PATH before /usr/bin (~/bin is a good place), it should do what you want. Marius

Re: Reason for removing animation from Gnome login?

all those thousands of small files needed for desktop startup during boot, before I try to log in. I'm guessing that it just doesn't know the particular ones that I need - everyone's GNOME settings are different, applets are different, wallpapers are different, themes are different. Marius

Re: Reason for removing animation from Gnome login?

, but I suspect are talking about the same inefficiencies in gnome-session, gnome-settings-daemon etc. Personally, for me the desktop startup is (or feels) I/O-bound, with the panel applets showing up one by one with agonizing pauses in between and the disk running at full throttle. Marius Gedminas

Re: aufs based upgrade tests

start creating files in /home that are going to be lost on reboot, it would be nice to warn them about that. I created as a stub wiki page: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AufsBasedUpgrades Marius Gedminas -- Some of the more environmentally aware dinosaurs were worried about the consequences

Re: Default font size in gnome

) devices? Since the X server uses EDID-reported physical size to determine the DPI, it's at least as precise as basing the font size on DPI alone, no? Marius Gedminas -- Everyone has a photographic memory. Some don't have film. signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: hwclock delaying boot...

be necessary. Marius Gedminas -- Never trust a computer you can't repair yourself. signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Vlc won't play DVD's on Ubuntu, or Kubuntu Intrepid

sure the player talked to it solved the issue. Can you try and narrow it down? E.g. can VLC play movies that aren't DVDs? What audio output device does it use (ALSA, pulseaudio, OSS)? Marius Gedminas -- I used to be an agnostic, but now I'm not so sure. signature.asc Description: Digital

Re: Midnight Commander in 8.10

the video card to the same one I have in my desktop didn't help. On those systems you can probably not install Ubuntu/Kubuntu in the first place. That was my reluctant conclusion. Marius Gedminas -- If Linux doesn't have the solution, you have the wrong problem. signature.asc Description

Re: Boot-time improvements

take more than a couple of seconds to start up, there's work left to do. Hear, hear! Marius Gedminas -- BASIC: A programming language. Related to certain social diseases in that those who have it will not admit it in polite company. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Boot-time improvements

gigs of RAM and hours of CPU time trying to render the monstrous svg: http://launchpad.net/+bugs/218499) GNOME login time annoys me more than boot time. It takes ~35 seconds, during which the disk is busy doing I/O. Marius Gedminas -- We'll show a small example here with one user calling another

Re: Boot-time improvements

don't see offhand why it is 20 seconds shorter than the first one. What is that 'exe' process near the start? Marius Gedminas -- Linux is a fast moving project, with very fast evolving components. If you're using an older distribution, older than 4 to 6 months (and anything with Enterprise

Re: which package owns the gnome quit button?

everything goes through a DBUS message to HAL which executes the appropriate script. (The script itself tries to determine which of the zillion suspend solutions you have installed and calls that one.) Marius Gedminas -- Eagleson's Law: Any code of your own that you haven't looked

Re: Compiz and workspace switcher

obsolete? I don't think so. Marius Gedminas -- The *REAL* Y2K is the year 2048. signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Using iwl3945 instead of ipw3945 in gutsy?

? Network manager doesn't quite work with ipw3945 either: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/121439 Marius Gedminas -- Of course I use Microsoft. Setting up a stable unix network is no challenge ;p signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss