On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 05:21:05PM +0100, Thomas Viehmann wrote: > Maybe you could try reimplementing (some) of that as a shell script > using dd. That way, you'd cut down on the packaging overhead. Also, > if > there's more stuff like that, it might eventually be worth > considering > having a package for the whole bunch. I don't get this point or rather I don't see the point at all since I use plain dd or a shell alias for its features used frequently. I packaged truncate with newbies in mind, as I said. > > I'm not a programmer, I mainly use console to do network May I explained wrong, I'm not used to "create" programs of my own, as an admin, I'm used to fix stuff. Anyway I'm still far from NM skills check :-) > The problem is that maintaining includes handling bug reports. >This in > turn means that you cannot properly maintain packages where you're > completely unfamiliar with the usage of the package or don't have a > clue when looking at its code. ... and I'm not that dumb to mail a RFS without being able to read the code of what I've packaged :-) Cheers,
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