Re: What is a game or which section do game console emulators belong to (was: Sections - especially section:kde and section:gnome)

2009-01-08 Thread Michael Banck
On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 11:00:13AM +0900, Paul Wise wrote: Personally I'm not sure what the reason sections were introduced, I assume it was because from a flat FTP hierachy it was not very easy to tell what kind of purpose a particular .deb had back in 1993. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

What is a game or which section do game console emulators belong to (was: Sections - especially section:kde and section:gnome)

2009-01-05 Thread Evgeni Golov
Hey, On Fri, 2 Jan 2009 09:34:50 + (UTC) Sune Vuorela wrote: I have been wondering over the last months about Section: kde. What is the correct usage of this section? Is it for packages that is related to the desktop itself or is it for packages that links against kdelibs ? Should a

Re: What is a game or which section do game console emulators belong to (was: Sections - especially section:kde and section:gnome)

2009-01-05 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 4:27 AM, Evgeni Golov sarge...@die-welt.net wrote: In my understanding otherosfs should be used for tools that are used for reading or manipulating filesystems of other OS (like dosfstools and mtools) - that isn't done by emulators directly (or at least the user doesn't