Re: RFC on packaging of additional Apache2 modules

2005-11-25 Thread John Morrison
On Fri, November 25, 2005 6:08 am, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Thu, 24 Nov 2005, Max Bowsher wrote: I'm preparing a new Apache 2 release, and want to include a conf.d arrangement to allow additional module packagess to install configuration fragments in a useful way. So far, my tentative

Re: RFC on packaging of additional Apache2 modules

2005-11-25 Thread Max Bowsher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Thu, 24 Nov 2005, Max Bowsher wrote: I'm preparing a new Apache 2 release, and want to include a conf.d arrangement to allow additional module packagess to install configuration fragments in a useful way. So far, my

Re: RFC on packaging of additional Apache2 modules

2005-11-25 Thread Max Bowsher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Morrison wrote: On Fri, November 25, 2005 6:08 am, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Thu, 24 Nov 2005, Max Bowsher wrote: I'm preparing a new Apache 2 release, and want to include a conf.d arrangement to allow additional module packagess to

Re: ITP: tinyirc - A real tiny IRC client

2005-11-25 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Jari Aalto on 11/24/2005 9:40 AM: wget -nv\ http://cygwin.cante.net/tinyirc/tinyirc-1.1-1.tar.bz2.sig \ http://cygwin.cante.net/tinyirc/tinyirc-1.1-1.tar.bz2 \

Re: setup installs packages without displaying it

2005-11-25 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Hi, I have selected some packages checked in the partial view which packages are active, then when installation strted several packages were installed which were not selected. E.g. autoconf, automake related and such. Since I explicitely excluded these form upgrade

RE: setup installs packages without displaying it

2005-11-25 Thread Dave Korn
Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Hi, I have selected some packages checked in the partial view which packages are active, then when installation strted several packages were installed which were not selected. E.g. autoconf, automake related and such. Since I explicitely

Re: setup installs packages without displaying it

2005-11-25 Thread Brian Dessent
Gerrit P. Haase wrote: I have selected some packages checked in the partial view which packages are active, then when installation strted several packages were installed which were not selected. E.g. autoconf, automake related and such. Since I explicitely excluded these form upgrade

Re: setup installs packages without displaying it

2005-11-25 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Dave Korn wrote: Or you could untick the box that says Install these packages to meet dependencies. Did that screen not appear? Yes, now after I have started it the second time to fix the broken installation, I see this checkbox for the very first time. Not really a good place for a

Re: setup installs packages without displaying it

2005-11-25 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Brian Dessent wrote: Gerrit P. Haase wrote: I have selected some packages checked in the partial view which packages are active, then when installation strted several packages were installed which were not selected. E.g. autoconf, automake related and such. Since I explicitely excluded

Re: setup installs packages without displaying it

2005-11-25 Thread Brian Dessent
Gerrit P. Haase wrote: be nice. And maybe make it optional, that is not checked by default. Pardon me for being blunt, but that's absurd. The whole point of adding that screen was that users kept managing to select a package and then deselect required dependencies somehow, ending up with a

Re: setup installs packages without displaying it

2005-11-25 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Brian Dessent wrote: Gerrit P. Haase wrote: be nice. And maybe make it optional, that is not checked by default. In the vast majority of cases continuing with missing dependencies is the wrong thing to do, so why should it be the default? Why should the default reflect a use case that is

Re: setup installs packages without displaying it

2005-11-25 Thread Brian Dessent
Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Previously there was no nag. I deslected some important package and was lost. Now a hint is displayed, one could tell the user: There are important packages missing in your selection, do you really want to be that stupid? To add these packages automatically hit the