Re: *BSD and GNU/*BSD nomenclature (was: Re: X Strike Force SVN commit: rev 183 - in branches/4.3.0/sid/debian: . patches)

2003-06-14 Thread Robert Millan
On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 12:23:22PM -0600, Joel Baker wrote: erm, so that was a typo? Well, if you read the part of the message you elided, I laid out exactly what the system is and isn't. You haven't answered my question about What is a GNU-based system?, so I cannot tell you whether it

*BSD and GNU/*BSD nomenclature (was: Re: X Strike Force SVN commit: rev 183 - in branches/4.3.0/sid/debian: . patches)

2003-06-13 Thread Robert Millan
[ moved the discussion to debian-bsd ] On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 10:17:14PM -0600, Joel Baker wrote: [1] as of now GNU/Hurd and GNU/*BSD only exist in Debian, but we can't assume that for a configuration file. And the NetBSD one is *not* GNU-based, then it doesn't make sense to call

Re: *BSD and GNU/*BSD nomenclature (was: Re: X Strike Force SVN commit: rev 183 - in branches/4.3.0/sid/debian: . patches)

2003-06-13 Thread Joel Baker
On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 02:05:12PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: [ moved the discussion to debian-bsd ] On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 10:17:14PM -0600, Joel Baker wrote: [1] as of now GNU/Hurd and GNU/*BSD only exist in Debian, but we can't assume that for a configuration file.

Re: *BSD and GNU/*BSD nomenclature (was: Re: X Strike Force SVN commit: rev 183 - in branches/4.3.0/sid/debian: . patches)

2003-06-13 Thread Robert Millan
On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 08:01:47AM -0600, Joel Baker wrote: On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 02:05:12PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 10:17:14PM -0600, Joel Baker wrote: And the NetBSD one is *not* GNU-based, then it doesn't make sense to call it GNU/NetBSD, would you

Re: *BSD and GNU/*BSD nomenclature (was: Re: X Strike Force SVN commit: rev 183 - in branches/4.3.0/sid/debian: . patches)

2003-06-13 Thread Joel Baker
On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 04:52:39PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 08:01:47AM -0600, Joel Baker wrote: On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 02:05:12PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 10:17:14PM -0600, Joel Baker wrote: And the NetBSD one is *not*

Re: *BSD and GNU/*BSD nomenclature (was: Re: X Strike Force SVN commit: rev 183 - in branches/4.3.0/sid/debian: . patches)

2003-06-13 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Joel Baker dijo [Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 10:08:42AM -0600]: (...) That's the situation with the NetBSD port as it stands. I'm happy to discuss whether it should be Debian GNU/NetBSD/i386 or simply Debian NetBSD/i386, but if we're going to dredge this up again, I'm going to have to insist on

Re: *BSD and GNU/*BSD nomenclature (was: Re: X Strike Force SVN commit: rev 183 - in branches/4.3.0/sid/debian: . patches)

2003-06-13 Thread Joel Baker
On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 07:14:48PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 10:08:42AM -0600, Joel Baker wrote: On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 04:52:39PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: You just said it is *not* GNU-based. Do you know what GNU/Something means? *sigh* It was