Greetings package maintainers,
I notice that _update-info-dir assumes that all info files worth
indexing are of the form /usr/info/*.info.
Unfortunately, there are 3 packages (if I count correctly) that do
not follow this rule:
emacs
texinfo
groff
Are the maintainers of
On Friday 21 Feb 03, David Starks-Browning writes:
Greetings package maintainers,
I notice that _update-info-dir assumes that all info files worth
indexing are of the form /usr/info/*.info.
Unfortunately, there are 3 packages (if I count correctly) that do
not follow this rule
On Wednesday 22 Jan 03, Igor Pechtchanski writes:
IMO, the best solution would be adding a sort by best bandwidth button
or something similar to the mirror display. Then, setup can query all of
the mirrors and put the closest one at top. It could save that order in
some file locally,
On Wednesday 22 Jan 03, Lapo Luchini writes:
David Starks-Browning wrote:
If I may interject, I hope setup never does this automatically, not
even the first time it runs. Can an arbitrary sort order be
acceptable by default, unless the user wants to sort by ping
performance?
What harm
On 25 Jul 02, in cygwin-xfree, Robert Collins writes:
I've been trying for *ages* to get /etc/profile to be an external file.
All' it needs is *someone* willing to be a package maintainer for it.
Hardly an onerous role, yet no one seems willing to do it.
As soon as someone emails me with
On Friday 22 Mar 02, Christopher Faylor writes:
Now that we have clickable categories, I think we should consider not
making Base the default installation, defaulting to something like
Standard instead.
Standard would include things like:
base +
bzip2
bash
clear
tcsh
less
vim
On Tuesday 15 Jan 02, Ken Stevens writes:
What are the chances of getting emacs or xemacs as part of the setup?
GNU Emacs is not ported to Cygwin.
Xemacs may be a candidate. Andy Piper essentially forked an early
setup.exe so he could provide a pre-compiled Cygwin Xemacs package.
(I think his
