Re: apt-class WAS: fai next level

2001-11-16 Thread Diane Trout
Jens Ruehmkorf [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yup, I'm wrong there, at least when it comes to text processing. When it comes to some tasks, perl is even slightly faster than C. In some book I read recently, Kernighan and Wall made some performance comparisons. On Unix for a text-specific problem,

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

2001-11-16 Thread Diane Trout
Jens Ruehmkorf [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: From policy it's perfectly alright to have package names like g+ and g++. But what to do when using apt-get remove g++? To enforce correct behaviour of apt-get in all cases (which is *the* package handling tool), debian would have to restrict the

Re: apt-class WAS: fai next level

2001-11-14 Thread Diane Trout
Thomas Lange [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Why using classes from cfengine ? If a machine was installed using Because in my environment there are machines that aren't installed with FAI. For example most of my coworkers have laptops that they installed, it would be nice to provide a method for

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

2001-11-13 Thread Diane Trout
But have a closer look at cfengine, which is made for daily maintainance and making changes to the system. Maybe you only need to write some more cfegine scripts. That reminds me of how I was thinking about solving the apt-get problem. I was thinking of writing a package that parsed