Thomas Perl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hello!
On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 20:42:16 +0200 George Danchev wrote:
On Saturday 18 November 2006 11:33, Adrian von Bidder wrote:
If they can't be used with the exact same commandline, there's no
sense in providing these virtual packages because the
On Friday 17 November 2006 16:44, Loïc Minier wrote:
On Fri, Nov 17, 2006, George Danchev wrote:
Using alternatives mechanism -- currently I don't think that using
alternatives mechanism would be a benefit as a whole, but I might be
blind of course.
Check /usr/bin/sensible-* in
On Friday 17 November 2006 15:22, George Danchev wrote:
* `cd-burner' -- could be provided by wodim, cdrskin, (cdrdao ?)
* `dvd-burner' -- could be provided by wodim, dvd+rw-tools and
dvdrecord
I don't know the programs in question exactly, but how likely is it that
even wodim
On Saturday 18 November 2006 11:33, Adrian von Bidder wrote:
On Friday 17 November 2006 15:22, George Danchev wrote:
* `cd-burner' -- could be provided by wodim, cdrskin, (cdrdao ?)
* `dvd-burner' -- could be provided by wodim, dvd+rw-tools and
dvdrecord
I don't know the
Hello!
On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 20:42:16 +0200 George Danchev wrote:
On Saturday 18 November 2006 11:33, Adrian von Bidder wrote:
If they can't be used with the exact same commandline, there's no
sense in providing these virtual packages because the programs need
explicit support for each of
Am Samstag 18 November 2006 19:42 schrieb George Danchev:
On Saturday 18 November 2006 11:33, Adrian von Bidder wrote:
On Friday 17 November 2006 15:22, George Danchev wrote:
* `cd-burner' -- could be provided by wodim, cdrskin, (cdrdao
?) * `dvd-burner' -- could be provided by
Hello,
With the advent of cdrskin [1] for writing CD-R/W in a cdrecord's
command-line-compatible way and already having several dvd burner
applications, I'd like to propose the addition of at least two more virtual
package names to the `Authoritative list of virtual package names' [2]
On Fri, Nov 17, 2006, George Danchev wrote:
Using alternatives mechanism -- currently I don't think that using
alternatives mechanism would be a benefit as a whole, but I might be blind of
course.
Check /usr/bin/sensible-* in debianutils. They rely on alternatives
and environment
On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 04:22:51PM +0200, George Danchev wrote:
* `cd-burner' -- could be provided by wodim, cdrskin, (cdrdao ?)
[...]
Another set of possible names would be `cd-recorder', `dvd-recorder' and so
on, but these are a little longer, while the clarity remains the same.
What
Dale Scheetz writes (Re: New virtual package names. ):
...
Well, I'm pretty sure that Bill didn't just wake up one morning and say
Wow! That essential field sure is neat! Let's put it in ae! My assumption
was that this was an attempt to keep ae in the system.
I think that Bill was under
On 30 Aug 1996, Mark Eichin wrote:
Emacs also has conditions
where it calls an outside editor...
Interesting. I'm aware of cases where it will call outside *viewers*
(mostly mime/web stuff) but I can't think of what outside editors it
would call. Could you perhaps expand on this
On 27 Aug 1996, Rob Browning wrote:
Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
(Until they try to remove all editors)
I don't want to cause trouble, but why don't we just completely
disallow the removal of ae. It's harmless, and the entire package
only takes up 54K. I can't see that it's
Dale Scheetz writes (Re: New virtual package names. ):
... Part of my concerns stem from the past history of ae. I have
only recently taken over the maintainance of this package. When I got it,
the essential field had been declaired a bug, but the discussion of that
bug seemed to indicate
Ian Jackson:
What terrible thing do you think will happen if the user removes all
their editors ? They'll sit there wanting to edit a file and think
Damn, I can't figure out why I can't edit this file. I just sit
here blankly and wonder how I used to edit files.
?
Yes.
--
Please read
On Tue, 27 Aug 1996, Ian Jackson wrote:
Dale Scheetz writes (Re: New virtual package names. ):
... Part of my concerns stem from the past history of ae. I have
only recently taken over the maintainance of this package. When I got it,
the essential field had been declaired a bug
On Sun, 25 Aug 1996, Ian Jackson wrote:
I have read all of the discussion. Just because I'm a week behind on
my email doesn't mean I'm not reading it.
However, since you seemed so insistent, I went back and had a look at
what arguments people might have presented.
I found a rather
On Wed, 21 Aug 1996, Ian Jackson wrote:
Dale Scheetz writes (Re: New virtual package names. ):
On Fri, 9 Aug 1996, Ian Jackson wrote:
...
Noone is going to deinstall all the editors on their system and not
notice what they've done wrong and how to fix it - this is not the
kind
Dale Scheetz writes (Re: New virtual package names. ):
On Fri, 9 Aug 1996, Ian Jackson wrote:
...
Noone is going to deinstall all the editors on their system and not
notice what they've done wrong and how to fix it - this is not the
kind of `mistake' our dependency scheme should try
On Fri, 9 Aug 1996, Ian Jackson wrote:
Dale Scheetz writes (Re: New virtual package names. ):
...
On another note, is there an editor virtual package? Is there any interest
in adding one? It could be valuable to add Provides: editor to ae (and
others as well).
Sorry I'm coming
Dale Scheetz writes (Re: New virtual package names. ):
...
On another note, is there an editor virtual package? Is there any interest
in adding one? It could be valuable to add Provides: editor to ae (and
others as well).
Sorry I'm coming into this so late (just over a week, in fact), but I
Well, it's been a while, so lets add:
imap-client and imap-server
to the virtual package names list.
Sure thing. I'm not familiar with imap though, so could you give me a
description for these to go in the list?
On another note, is there an editor virtual package? Is there any interest
in
Warwick HARVEY:
Are there packages that depend on having an editor,
Without trying, I think of vipw, vigr, mail, elm, rcs (and thus cvs),
trn, tin, and nn. I grant that all but vipw and vigr can be used without
an editor -- if you only read mail and news and never check anything in.
I don't
On Fri, 2 Aug 1996, Warwick HARVEY wrote:
On another note, is there an editor virtual package? Is there any interest
in adding one? It could be valuable to add Provides: editor to ae (and
others as well).
What would it be used for? Are there packages that depend on having an
editor, or
Well, it's been a while, so lets add:
imap-client and imap-server
to the virtual package names list.
On another note, is there an editor virtual package? Is there any interest
in adding one? It could be valuable to add Provides: editor to ae (and
others as well).
Thanks,
Dwarf
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