Re: How to make Debian more attractive for users, was: Re: The number of popcon.debian.org-submissions is falling

2010-07-21 Thread Chris Jackson
out, no-one has the right to attempt to force what someone does in their spare time, and quite rightly so; but if the devs are only interested in developing to their own needs, well, inevitably people will drift to systems they consider more suitable to, in turn, their needs. Thanks for bearing w

Re: udev and /usr

2009-09-04 Thread Chris Jackson
were the case that for some "exotics" you have to have bits of /usr and /var on the same partition as / I guess that would be liveable. Just a thought. -- Chris Jackson Shadowcat Systems Ltd. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: udev and /usr

2009-09-01 Thread Chris Jackson
or it in places. -- Chris Jackson Shadowcat Systems Ltd. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: udev and /usr

2009-09-01 Thread Chris Jackson
m not 100% sure whether the files in question are needed in such a circumstance, but that's the question that needs thinking about. -- Chris Jackson Shadowcat Systems Ltd. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: udev and /usr

2009-09-01 Thread Chris Jackson
nt it, and generally things like /etc/hostname will be different, so, while I suppose it's theoretically possible, I'd take it also to be somewhat sub-optimal. -- Chris Jackson Shadowcat Systems Ltd. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: udev and /usr

2009-09-01 Thread Chris Jackson
; forcing it to be on the same filesystem as / is very sub-optimal. -- Chris Jackson Shadowcat Systems Ltd. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org