Matthew Swift writes: >>Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>Why don't you use the /usr/local part of the filesystem? > >I have 320 megabytes of non-Debian things in /usr/local. > >Part of the problem is sloppy Debian configurations. Don't get me >wrong, this is a mild criticism, Debian rules, but little changes make >some things better, and I have submitted or intend to submit bug >reports/suggestions where relevant. I think this is inevitable. [...] Please do submit bug reports! >Since Emacs (surprisingly) does not have a reliable transparent >interface to .gz files, jka-compr works fine for me. Are you using it and finding it unreliable, or just unaware of it? If it's not activated by default then this is probably a bug (unless there's some good reason...) >I've had to uncompress a lot of things in /usr/doc in order to read >them conveniently. You have to actually build the documentation in a >lot of cases (LaTeX's, for example). >I wanted my DAT on /dev/nst0 owned by a different user group than >"disk". I think the absence of a tape group has already been reported as a bug - but don't quote me. I'm pretty sure it's been mentioned before somewhere. ttfn/rjk
