Re: thoughts about a hint.

2005-09-27 Thread Luca Dionisi
On 9/27/05, Tushar Teredesai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Seems a very trivial extension of the current pkg-user hint. Yep, indeed it's not a great deal! :) Also, I fail to understand what the benefit is with this extension. You are already giving the pkg user privilege to install files in the

Re: thoughts about a hint.

2005-09-27 Thread Luca Dionisi
It's me again. Just a thing... I'm not sure that I said the right thing in english. On 9/27/05, Luca Dionisi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, on the other hand, you may not allow any package user to install files on /etc/rc.d I mean, on the other hand, you may allow no package users to install

Re: OpenOffice 2.0beta2

2005-09-27 Thread Jeremy Byron
Jeremy Byron wrote: snip I don't have any more time to look into this tonight, and I'm going to be pretty busy over the next few days with classes/assignments.. I'll keep an eye on the mailing list though, and help out as much as I can. Ok, I lied.. decided to stay up late, but I'll probably

Re: GConf / *.schemas question

2005-09-27 Thread Simon Geard
On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 07:52 +, randhir phagura wrote: I will have to learn bash scripting to sufficient degree to be able to become 'root' in the middle of an automating install script, at the 'make install' stage for each package. As of now, I don't even know if it is possible at all.

AAD Dailly Update

2005-09-27 Thread Arabs Against Discrimination
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логистика. профессиональная переподгото вка

2005-09-27 Thread Center
Институт проводит набор слушателейна профессиональную переподготовку по логистике. Объем учебной программы профессиональной переподготовки составляет 584 академических часа.Принимаются лица с высшим техническим или экономическим образованием и студенты старших курсов вузов.Набор на

Re: thoughts about a hint.

2005-09-27 Thread Tushar Teredesai
On 9/27/05, Luca Dionisi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let's say you are about to install a package. Actually it is a malicious package... but you don't know this. If the install script (when you run it as a privileged user) puts a bootscript in /etc/rc.d/... and you don't realize that, at the

Re: DivX support for gstreamer

2005-09-27 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 9/27/05, David Ciecierski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm, if not through the official DivX linux libraries - then how do you play your divx files? I would love to get this thing sorted out. Why not use Xvid? It's open source, and not dated from 2 years ago. I believe you can use either to