Re: What kernel stuff on CD1? Was Still no TeX in CD#1

2002-05-31 Thread Anthony Towns
On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 10:54:47AM +1200, Philip Charles wrote: On Thu, 30 May 2002, Santiago Vila wrote: What's wrong with basic-desktop being x-window-system-core plus a WM plus xterm? As I said, x-window-system contains things which are far away from being basic. If we force it to be on

Re: What kernel stuff on CD1? Was Still no TeX in CD#1

2002-05-31 Thread Santiago Vila
On Fri, 31 May 2002, Anthony Towns wrote: On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 10:54:47AM +1200, Philip Charles wrote: On Thu, 30 May 2002, Santiago Vila wrote: What's wrong with basic-desktop being x-window-system-core plus a WM plus xterm? As I said, x-window-system contains things which are far

Re: What kernel stuff on CD1? Was Still no TeX in CD#1

2002-05-30 Thread Santiago Vila
One comment: In pre6-pre7-package.diff.txt I see: -Non-US:pool/non-US/main/e/erlang/erlang_8.0-4_i386.deb -Non-US:pool/non-US/main/e/erlang-slang/erlang-slang_1.0-3_i386.deb -Non-US:pool/non-US/main/o/openh323/libopenh323-dbg_1.7.4-6_i386.deb

Re: What kernel stuff on CD1? Was Still no TeX in CD#1

2002-05-30 Thread Philip Hands
On Thu, 2002-05-30 at 10:08, Santiago Vila wrote: One comment: In pre6-pre7-package.diff.txt I see: -Non-US:pool/non-US/main/e/erlang/erlang_8.0-4_i386.deb -Non-US:pool/non-US/main/e/erlang-slang/erlang-slang_1.0-3_i386.deb

Re: What kernel stuff on CD1? Was Still no TeX in CD#1

2002-05-30 Thread Santiago Vila
On 30 May 2002, Philip Hands wrote: On Thu, 2002-05-30 at 10:08, Santiago Vila wrote: If we accept that a first non-US CD does not necessarily have to contain the whole of non-US, we could change the way of generating the CDs from Including most of non-US in CD#1, excluding big packages

Re: What kernel stuff on CD1? Was Still no TeX in CD#1

2002-05-30 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Philip Hands wrote: The good news is that TeX is in, the bad news is that packages such as xdm, xfs xterm are out. This seems bad, but I suppose since gdm kdm are on there, and one can survive without xfs, and gnome-terminal is in, we could actually live without those, but will

Re: What kernel stuff on CD1? Was Still no TeX in CD#1

2002-05-30 Thread Santiago Vila
On Thu, 30 May 2002, Wichert Akkerman wrote: Previously Philip Hands wrote: The good news is that TeX is in, the bad news is that packages such as xdm, xfs xterm are out. This seems bad, but I suppose since gdm kdm are on there, and one can survive without xfs, and gnome-terminal is

Re: What kernel stuff on CD1? Was Still no TeX in CD#1

2002-05-30 Thread Philip Charles
On Thu, 30 May 2002, Santiago Vila wrote: On Thu, 30 May 2002, Wichert Akkerman wrote: Previously Philip Hands wrote: The good news is that TeX is in, the bad news is that packages such as xdm, xfs xterm are out. This seems bad, but I suppose since gdm kdm are on there, and one

Re: What kernel stuff on CD1? Was Still no TeX in CD#1

2002-05-30 Thread Philip Hands
On Thu, 2002-05-30 at 10:50, Santiago Vila wrote: On 30 May 2002, Philip Hands wrote: On Thu, 2002-05-30 at 10:08, Santiago Vila wrote: If we accept that a first non-US CD does not necessarily have to contain the whole of non-US, we could change the way of generating the CDs from

Re: What kernel stuff on CD1? Was Still no TeX in CD#1

2002-05-30 Thread Santiago Vila
On Wed, 30 May 2001, Philip Charles wrote: This package depends on xspecs so it's certainly not for normal users. We are operating with two sets of constraints. The task system. x-window-system is part of task basic-desktop, so to remove it means that this task is incomplete and probably

Re: What kernel stuff on CD1? Was Still no TeX in CD#1

2002-05-30 Thread Santiago Vila
Perhaps this is a simple typo/mistake and it should be x-window-system-core, not x-window-system, the single package in the basic-desktop task? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What kernel stuff on CD1? Was Still no TeX in CD#1

2002-05-30 Thread Philip Hands
On Thu, 2002-05-30 at 12:30, Wichert Akkerman wrote: Previously Philip Hands wrote: The good news is that TeX is in, the bad news is that packages such as xdm, xfs xterm are out. This seems bad, but I suppose since gdm kdm are on there, and one can survive without xfs, and

Re: What kernel stuff on CD1? Was Still no TeX in CD#1

2002-05-30 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 01:57:38PM +0100, Philip Hands wrote: Hmm, considering that woody has already 8 binary CDs (i.e. 7 US CDs and 1 non-US one) a 2nd NONUS CD would not be such a big change. Steve noticed that several of the packages that claim to be non-US are actually now in main, but

Re: What kernel stuff on CD1? Was Still no TeX in CD#1

2002-05-30 Thread Philip Charles
On Thu, 30 May 2002, Santiago Vila wrote: On Wed, 30 May 2001, Philip Charles wrote: The release. We were told in no uncertain terms that we were not to mess with task system. More than being a part of, x-window-system is the *only* package in the basic-desktop task. I think there is

Re: What kernel stuff on CD1? Was Still no TeX in CD#1

2002-05-30 Thread Joey Hess
Santiago Vila wrote: More than being a part of, x-window-system is the *only* package in the basic-desktop task. I think there is something fundamentally wrong in this task if it's called basic and, at the same time, it includes xspecs. There is also a `desktop' task containing

Re: What kernel stuff on CD1? Was Still no TeX in CD#1

2002-05-30 Thread Santiago Vila
On Thu, 30 May 2002, Joey Hess wrote: Santiago Vila wrote: I would like to hear some comments about this from whoever created this weird basic-desktop task. Well, take a look at tasksel's changelog: * Make the basic-desktop task incude all of x-window-system (so it gets a WM and

Re: What kernel stuff on CD1? Was Still no TeX in CD#1

2002-05-30 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Philip == Philip Hands [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Philip Looking at the sizes of the packages on CD#1_NONUS from pre6 Philip I see that stating with the largest we have (after getting Philip rid of the kernel images): Philip 128882447 emacs21_21.2-1_i386.deb Philip 105322127

Re: What kernel stuff on CD1? Was Still no TeX in CD#1

2002-05-30 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 01:24:28PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Santiago Vila wrote: I would like to hear some comments about this from whoever created this weird basic-desktop task. Well, take a look at tasksel's changelog: * Make the basic-desktop task incude all of x-window-system (so

Re: What kernel stuff on CD1? Was Still no TeX in CD#1

2002-05-30 Thread Santiago Vila
On Thu, 30 May 2002, Branden Robinson wrote: On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 01:24:28PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Well, take a look at tasksel's changelog: * Make the basic-desktop task incude all of x-window-system (so it gets a WM and xterm and so on), while the desktop task uses just

Re: What kernel stuff on CD1? Was Still no TeX in CD#1

2002-05-30 Thread Philip Charles
On Thu, 30 May 2002, Santiago Vila wrote: What's wrong with basic-desktop being x-window-system-core plus a WM plus xterm? As I said, x-window-system contains things which are far away from being basic. If we force it to be on CD #1, lots of very popular packages will end up being in CD #2.

Re: What kernel stuff on CD1? Was Still no TeX in CD#1

2002-05-30 Thread Santiago Vila
On Fri, 31 May 2002, Philip Charles wrote: On Thu, 30 May 2002, Santiago Vila wrote: What's wrong with basic-desktop being x-window-system-core plus a WM plus xterm? As I said, x-window-system contains things which are far away from being basic. If we force it to be on CD #1, lots of

Re: What kernel stuff on CD1? Was Still no TeX in CD#1

2002-05-30 Thread Philip Charles
On Fri, 31 May 2002, Santiago Vila wrote: If we can't fix usability bugs during the freeze, we might better unfreeze woody for a while, fix the basic-desktop task, and freeze woody again... Let's get woody out of the door fast. Tomorrow preferably, if not, the day after. We can reccommend

Re: What kernel stuff on CD1? Was Still no TeX in CD#1

2002-05-30 Thread Philip Hands
On Thu, 2002-05-30 at 16:18, Anthony Towns wrote: I've already replied to Phil's bug about this, but this doesn't actually work out: erlang's in non-US in testing and unstable, and won't be moving for woody. There's a bunch of stuff for which new versions have been uploaded to main for

Re: What kernel stuff on CD1? Was Still no TeX in CD#1

2002-05-29 Thread Santiago Vila
Warning: My interpretation of the numbers in the pop-con may be wrong. [ Someone please remind us about the meaning of the different columns ]. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What kernel stuff on CD1? Was Still no TeX in CD#1

2002-05-29 Thread Chris Lawrence
On May 29, Santiago Vila wrote: The first number is the number of people in the popularity contest who use the package regularly. Hmm, I wonder why doc-linux-text has priority standard at all, when so few people use it regularly... Anyway, I would drop all the aspell packages, plus

Re: What kernel stuff on CD1? Was Still no TeX in CD#1

2002-05-29 Thread Philip Charles
On 29 May 2002, Philip Hands wrote: Does anyone have other candidates for a move, or reasons not to move any of the packages mentioned above? Good luck. Don't $#@! tasks. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488

Re: Still no TeX in CD#1

2002-05-27 Thread Michael Stone
On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 07:36:49PM +0200, Paul Seelig wrote: Believe it or not, TeX/LaTeX is a major reason people switch to Linux. That's actually why i switched to Linux seven years ago and most people i know using Linux do so because of the finely integrated TeX/LaTeX environment. Well,

Re: Still no TeX in CD#1

2002-05-27 Thread Paul Seelig
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Stone) writes: On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 07:36:49PM +0200, Paul Seelig wrote: Believe it or not, TeX/LaTeX is a major reason people switch to Linux. That's actually why i switched to Linux seven years ago and most people i know using Linux do so because of the

Re: Still no TeX in CD#1

2002-05-25 Thread Paul Seelig
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wichert Akkerman) writes: So prove to us that TeX is popular. These days that would surprise me very much. Believe it or not, TeX/LaTeX is a major reason people switch to Linux. That's actually why i switched to Linux seven years ago and most people i know using Linux do

Re: Still no TeX in CD#1

2002-05-24 Thread Santiago Vila
On Fri, 24 May 2002, Philip Charles wrote: On Fri, 24 May 2002, Santiago Vila wrote: Yes, but this does *not* answer my question at all: kernel-image-* packages do not belong to any task, are any of them more popular than tetex-bin? I believe they are not, but the only data I have to

What kernel stuff on CD1? Was Still no TeX in CD#1

2002-05-24 Thread Philip Charles
I have been convinced. What kernel images, packages, source, patches do we want on CD1? At the moment we have, rough list. Resubmitted in case you have deleated it. What no source! Phil. Package: kernel-image-2.2.20 Package: kernel-image-2.2.20-compact Package: kernel-image-2.2.20-idepci

Re: What kernel stuff on CD1? Was Still no TeX in CD#1

2002-05-24 Thread Chris Lawrence
On May 24, Philip Charles wrote: I have been convinced. What kernel images, packages, source, patches do we want on CD1? At the moment we have, rough list. Resubmitted in case you have deleated it. What no source! Certainly all the 2.4.16 packages could go; there's no point in having

Re: What kernel stuff on CD1? Was Still no TeX in CD#1

2002-05-24 Thread Santiago Vila
We can drop 2.4.16 since we have 2.4.18 (I think this is already done). If we add kernel-source-2.4.18 and kernel-source-2.2.20, these are the popularities in decreasing order: kernel-image-2.2.20 418 kernel-source-2.4.18 150 -- we could cut

Re: What kernel stuff on CD1? Was Still no TeX in CD#1

2002-05-24 Thread Santiago Vila
Same list adding pcmcia-source: kernel-image-2.2.20 418 kernel-source-2.4.18 150 pcmcia-source 81 kernel-image-2.4.18-686 29 kernel-source-2.2.20 28 kernel-image-2.4.18-k7

Re: What kernel stuff on CD1? Was Still no TeX in CD#1

2002-05-24 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Title: Re: What kernel stuff on CD1? Was Still no TeX in CD#1 Le Fri, May 24, 2002 at 11:11:13PM +1200, Philip Charles écrivait: What kernel images, packages, source, patches do we want on CD1? Those we already have. Check tasks/exclude-woody : we're excluding kernel-image-2.4.16

Still no TeX in CD#1

2002-05-23 Thread Santiago Vila
I've checked the pre6 images and teTeX is still in CD #2. I made a very simple and precise question about this: http://lists.debian.org/debian-cd/2002/debian-cd-200205/msg00133.html but nobody answered. What's the problem? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Still no TeX in CD#1

2002-05-23 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 04:05:45PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: but nobody answered. What's the problem? Apparantly there isn't a consensus that tex needs to be on cd 1. I certainly don't see that it does. -- Mike Stone msg03798/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Still no TeX in CD#1

2002-05-23 Thread Santiago Vila
Wichert Akkerman wrote: Previously Santiago Vila wrote: I believed there was a consensus that the most popular packages would be on CD #1. Thanks for replying but my question remains unanswered. So prove to us that TeX is popular. These days that would surprise me very much. See it by

Re: Still no TeX in CD#1

2002-05-23 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Christian T. Steigies wrote: These days? Do you think everybody is using w**d, or is there something else you can use for writing papers, books, letters, faxes, creating posters? For scientific documents *TeX is still pretty much the only real solution, but with scientific community

Re: Still no TeX in CD#1

2002-05-23 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 10:30:25AM -0500, Christian T. Steigies wrote: These days? Do you think everybody is using w**d, or is there something else you can use for writing papers, books, letters, faxes, creating posters? Yes, there are many options. Which is why tex doesn't necessarily deserve

Re: Still no TeX in CD#1

2002-05-23 Thread Philip Charles
On Thu, 23 May 2002, Santiago Vila wrote: I've checked the pre6 images and teTeX is still in CD #2. I made a very simple and precise question about this: http://lists.debian.org/debian-cd/2002/debian-cd-200205/msg00133.html but nobody answered. What's the problem? This goes back about two