Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-20 Thread Steve Greenland
> [examples deleted] Ban them all. None of that crap belongs on a Debian technical list. No amount of technical input can compensate for the hostility and stupidity that those kind of posts promote. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable ope

Re: Can a Package be installed that only effects 1 user account?

2002-05-21 Thread Steve Greenland
g other gcc installs, and it shouldn't affect any other users unless they explicitely call it. One thing to check is that the /usr/bin/cc link doesn't get changed to egcs; if it does, you'll have to reset it using update-alternatives. Note the liberal use of weasel terms like "do

Re: vim 6.0 packages

2001-09-29 Thread Steve Greenland
got vim-tiny? Or you've picked up one of the i18nized nvi packages (I'm not sure what priorities they've been assigned.) Steve -- Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [users] Re: Time to fight for our beloved DEB format!

2001-07-04 Thread Steve Greenland
On 03-Jul-01, 17:50 (CDT), Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 12:40:05PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: > > the benifit is leaving what all 4 of those runlevels do solely up to > YOU not some so called standards body. So we should get rid

Re: [users] Re: Time to fight for our beloved DEB format!

2001-07-03 Thread Steve Greenland
having 4 identical runlevels has so far escaped me. The one thing I've heard so far that seems gratuitous is the separate library loader. Steve -- Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Please do not CC me on mail sent to this list; I subscribe to and read every list I post to.)

Re: PLEASE: standard package README file/orientation

2000-08-24 Thread Steve Greenland
On 23-Aug-00, 18:17 (CDT), Daniel Barclay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From: Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > ... Current policy > > requires that /usr/doc/ exist (possibly as a symlink to > > /usr/share/doc/). > > Then why don't more

Re: PLEASE: standard package README file/orientation

2000-08-22 Thread Steve Greenland
On 22-Aug-00, 23:12 (CDT), Daniel Barclay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Some packages don't have a documentation directory at all. Then they are in violation of the Debian policy. Current policy requires that /usr/doc/ exist (possibly as a symlink to /usr/share/doc/). > Some others do but their f

Re: Long time Debian user with semi-technical question

2000-04-25 Thread Steve Greenland
On 24-Apr-00, 23:02 (CDT), Andrew Weiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have been using Debian since the old A.out days of Debian 1.0, and I was > wondering since I am doing development of our company's own Linux > distribution based on Debian... I have potato as the base and am beginning > to cust

Re: glibc-compat ???

2000-03-24 Thread Steve Greenland
; > FWIW, I'm running Oracle 8i (SQL*Plus reports v 8.1.5) with the latest patches (as of a month ago) on a potato box with no obvious problems, I don't have any compatibility libs installed. steve -- Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Please do not CC me on mail sent to thi

Re: [RfS] Request for Submissions: Upcoming Debian Logo

1999-02-19 Thread Steve Greenland
On 18-Feb-99, 17:33 (CST), Oliver Elphick wrote: > Martin Schulze wrote: > > I'd like *everybody* think about a possible logo. Please notice the > > following simple rules: > > > > . A logo is NOT a set of letters. Thus the string "Debian" rendered > > very nice is ... a picture but

Re: * Formal call for the removal of Bruce Perens *

1997-10-25 Thread Steve Greenland
> discontent) will turn my efforts to that. The Debian distribution doesn't need 'fixing', and I really hope that you keep your promise about this being the last time. Bruce: Don't back down to this paranoid jerk. Just hope he goes away. Stev