Re: apt-class WAS: fai next level

2001-11-15 Thread Thomas Lange
On Thu, 15 Nov 2001 03:22:52 +0100 (MET), Jens Ruehmkorf [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hm. I really don't see any problems with porting tools written in C to other architectures. And you have small size and speed. Perl is fast enough ! Most time of FAI is spend in extracting packages and

Re: strengths of C++, (off-topic) WAS Re: apt-class

2001-11-15 Thread Jens Ruehmkorf
On 14 Nov 2001, Diane Trout wrote: Jens Ruehmkorf [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hm. I don't get what you mean. Which problems do you see in using C? Pesonal preference, since the problem is more of a string processing problem, I prefer C++'s string class to strncpy. Also [...] To get me

Re: fai next level WAS: apt-get failures -- blah!

2001-11-15 Thread Jens Ruehmkorf
On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Thomas Lange wrote: You have to add a - to the package name, so it will get removed (this is an apt-get feature, e.g. apt-get install fai- will removbe the fai package). A feature that doesn't seem well thought to me, unfortunately. Policy states (section 2.3.1), that