Re: a.s.r manpages

1997-06-02 Thread Pawel Wiecek
On May 28, 12:55pm, Joey Hess wrote: Buddha Buck: Personally, I question placing them in the main distribution at all (including non-free and contrib). I have nothing wrong with the contents (if available, it would be installed on my system rather quickly), but rather the unwanted

Re: a.s.r manpages

1997-05-28 Thread Buddha Buck
I am about to create a package (in fact it's ready) with alt.sysadmin.recovery man pages (things like lart, sysadmin, etc.) So, first of all I'd like to check if there are no other people working on it and if the others think this should be put into Debian. And another question - I'm not sure

Re: a.s.r manpages

1997-05-28 Thread Joey Hess
Buddha Buck: Personally, I question placing them in the main distribution at all (including non-free and contrib). I have nothing wrong with the contents (if available, it would be installed on my system rather quickly), but rather the unwanted publicity it could cause. I packaged up some

Re: a.s.r manpages

1997-05-28 Thread Mark Baker
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Look at it this way: I don't think any of the man pages mention ASR at all. So the only person who is going to connect ASR with the package is someone who looks at the package description. Who's most likly to do that?

Re: a.s.r manpages

1997-05-27 Thread Pawel Wiecek
On May 26, 10:15am, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Alexander Such pearls of wisdom need to be what they're done Alexander for... Showing up with man... Alexander Nobody will die because of that... Hopefully. Fine, as long as the desciption field is clear that these ``manual pages'' are

a.s.r manpages

1997-05-26 Thread Pawel Wiecek
I am about to create a package (in fact it's ready) with alt.sysadmin.recovery man pages (things like lart, sysadmin, etc.) So, first of all I'd like to check if there are no other people working on it and if the others think this should be put into Debian. And another question - I'm not sure if

Re: a.s.r manpages

1997-05-26 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Would the doc directory be better for man pages? Why games? manoj confused -- Civilisation is the art of living in towns of such size that everyone does not know everyone else. Julian Jaynes Manoj Srivastava url:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Mobile, Alabama USA

Re: a.s.r manpages

1997-05-26 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
On May 26, Manoj Srivastava wrote Would the doc directory be better for man pages? Why games? Check out the manpages at http://www.bofh.net/man/: lart - Luser Attitude Readjustment Tool - use a lart to adjust lusers' attitudes sysadmin - responsible for everything imaginable that

Re: a.s.r manpages

1997-05-26 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Oh, I see. Well, this stuff is then like a joke book, in manual page format, and I think that humor should still fit in under the doc category (If I remember correctly, that is where the consensus was to place books like the bible or older books whose copyrights have expired)

Re: a.s.r manpages

1997-05-26 Thread Vadim Vygonets
On 26 May 1997, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Oh, I see. Well, this stuff is then like a joke book, in manual page format, and I think that humor should still fit in under the doc category (If I remember correctly, that is where the consensus was to place books like the bible or older books

Re: a.s.r manpages

1997-05-26 Thread Pawel Wiecek
On May 26, 1:36pm, Alexander Koch wrote: But doesn't it belong to /usr/man, if it's in groff format? Such pearls of wisdom need to be what they're done for... Showing up with man... I wrote it once, but it apparently went into wrong place :^) We're not talking about the location in

Re: a.s.r manpages

1997-05-26 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Alexander == Alexander Koch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Alexander Such pearls of wisdom need to be what they're done Alexander for... Showing up with man... Alexander Nobody will die because of that... Hopefully. Fine, as long as the desciption field is clear that these ``manual

Humore (no, I'm not serious here (was Re: a.s.r manpages)

1997-05-26 Thread Chris Fearnley
'J.H.M.Dassen wrote:' On May 26, Manoj Srivastava wrote Would the doc directory be better for man pages? Why games? Check out the manpages at http://www.bofh.net/man/: lart - Luser Attitude Readjustment Tool - use a lart to adjust lusers' attitudes sysadmin - responsible for