I _knew_ Apple was behind this somehow!
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Vincent Lefevre vinc...@vinc17.net writes:
So... these functions were made almost an order of magnitude slower
in the (overwhelmingly) common case, in order to handle rare and
exceptional cases...?
This depends on the processor. You should get a processor that
handles rounding-mode change in
Vincent Lefevre vinc...@vinc17.net writes:
But with:
...
int r = fegetround();
if (r != FE_TONEAREST)
fesetround (FE_TONEAREST);
y = exp(x);
...
I only get a 9% slowdown. I suppose that withing glibc code, it can
be lower.
Makes sense... I can imagine the way
Vincent Lefevre vinc...@vinc17.net writes:
Based on a glance at the source, it seems like the math libraries
were changed in lots of little ways between 2.13 and 2.16 [and it
looks like the FPU-twiddling that made expf slow in 2.13 has been
_added_ to the generic version of the exp
Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org writes:
Is there a reason that Debian has such an old version of glibc, even in
unstable?
The current upstream version of glibc seems to be 2.16, whereas Debian
has 2.13 (which is circa 2011-02).
The basic reasons are that 2.14 was a dud of an upstream
Is there a reason that Debian has such an old version of glibc, even in
unstable?
The current upstream version of glibc seems to be 2.16, whereas Debian
has 2.13 (which is circa 2011-02).
[The particular improvement I'm interested in is a (significantly)
faster version of the expf function
Jeremy Bicha jbi...@ubuntu.com writes:
I don't claim to be a networking expert, but I believe half the
conversation here is based on wrong or outdated information.
My (personal) complaint about NM is that it doesn't correct correctly
work with NFS mounts, I believe because it doesn't run at the
Gergely Nagy alger...@balabit.hu writes:
if upstream considers a package a core part of a platform,
recommends *is* wrong.
Er, no.
Upstreams are not infallible, and are often quite fallible...
Upstream's view is a good _default_, but such judgements should be
made based on the reality on the
Félix Arreola Rodríguez fgatuno@gmail.com writes:
But, ignoring the a desktop works fine without n-m thing, n-m makes
more, much more easy connecting to wifi networks, espeacially for
laptops. I suggest make Laptop task depend on n-m, in this way, n-m
don't get installed on desktop
Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org writes:
I do not think there is much trolling. We need to discuss issues
openly.
It certainly _resembles_ a classic troll: long and vaguely insulting
(under a surface veneer of politeness), yet curiously vague and
information-free, despite its length, and
Arno Töll a...@debian.org writes:
On 24.06.2012 19:15, Neil Williams wrote:
This bug is *not* useful to anyone. Please close it and find an
RC bug to close instead.
I'm pretty sure this could be expressed in another tone. Especially
since we welcome everyone (you know) and we have _no_
Salvo Tomaselli tipos...@tiscali.it writes:
This is indeed a valid point. But that’s no regression; /tmp has
always been for small short-lived files, and /var/tmp for those
that are not one of them or not both.
You just made up this difference.
No he didn't, it's common practice from
Peter Samuelson pe...@p12n.org writes:
If you can think of a way to implement this same stuff (and remember,
bash-completion supports a _lot_ more complex cases than 'kill')
without adding 200 kB of shell functions to bash's runtime, by all
means, do it and see how it works out.
What would
Brian May br...@microcomaustralia.com.au writes:
This is not a good idea: http://mako.cc/writing/hill-free_tools.html
MUCH seconded. Thanks for sharing the link!
I don't see the problem, github is just a hosting provider. Unlike,
say Bitkeeper, you are free to make git clones anywhere,
Thomas Goirand z...@debian.org writes:
Perhaps it should be
extended to allow the directory to be below ~/ instead of below
/tmp/. :)
I don't think so. As other pointed out, your /home could be
remote (over NFS?), and then slow, while /tmp is normally
on your local machine, so moving the
Serge sergem...@gmail.com writes:
Every tool either supports setting TMPDIR=/var/tmp before running
it or is buggy. Go fix these instead
Do I understand you right? You suggest every tool that need large
tmp files to use /var/tmp instead?
That's not a new suggestion, it's been standard
Serge sergem...@gmail.com writes:
I'm asking for *popular* apps, that create files in /tmp, *never put
large files* there, and become *noticeably* faster with /tmp on tmpfs?
Is that even the issue, for the most part? My impression is that
using tmpfs is just logistically simpler and safer --
Jakub Wilk jw...@debian.org writes:
ACK. /tmp on tmpfs is a nice hack (I use it myself!), but it's a
terrible default.
I can't say whether it's a good default or not (though it seems to
work pretty well in practice), but the OP's argument is completely
silly. Most apps use /tmp not for
Paul Wise p...@debian.org writes:
There is smolt for that, but folks haven't packaged it for Debian yet:
https://fedorahosted.org/smolt/
http://bugs.debian.org/435058
Hmm... from http://smolts.org/static/stats/stats.html:
The statistics script is no longer running and creating new
Alexander Wirt formo...@debian.org writes:
I am just speaking for myself as listmaster. But I don't think any
DD has more right to talk on a mailinglist than anybody else. I
won't support such a proposal nor want I participate in it. If you
have a problem with someone on a mailinglist, report
Svante Signell svante.sign...@telia.com writes:
So, the
real problem is: How do you define the boot process of a computer. For
me it is when the kernel has been loaded by the boot media, memory,
graphics card, etc initialized. Some modules are needed for boot, other
modules can be loaded
Stephan Seitz stse+deb...@fsing.rootsland.net writes:
Isn't mounting filesystems, which can depend on the network, part of
the boot process?
Yes, but how do you check if the network is configured and operational?
- when the link is up?
- when the IP address is configured (how do you check this
Bernd Zeimetz be...@bzed.de writes:
Er, what? Please don't throw out silly strawmen...
Stephan's points are valid. Just having a link on your favourite cisco does
not
mean that you are allowed to send packets anywhere yet. Getting a ipv6 address
via radvd does not mean that you are able
Bernhard R. Link brl...@debian.org writes:
For the grammer I personally would prefer it expanded, though I
think it is more understandable as EBNF (Extended Backus-Naur Form)
Grammar than the other way around.
I agree -- in reinforces the fact that these are well-known terms
which are often
Adam Borowski kilob...@angband.pl writes:
On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 11:22:06AM +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote:
GLR means Generalized Left-to-right Rightmost deviation parser
or maybe Generalized LR parser. EBNF is the Extended BackusâNaur
Form. Acronyms like these - i.e. LL, LL(k), SLR, LALR - are
David Weinehall t...@debian.org writes:
Consider the case where a legal department was worried about the code
repository becoming tainted with uncontrolled or ill-considered GPL
obligations.
If the legal department is that incompetent it's about time they got
replaced by more competent
Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez clo...@igalia.com writes:
$ sudo apt-get remove network-manager*
$ sudo apt-get install wicd wicd-curses wicd-gtk
^ wicd-kde ?
$ wicd-curses
And enjoy your network without the NM mess :)
... unless, of course, you're using
Reinhard Tartler siret...@gmail.com writes:
On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 11:52 AM, Milan P. Stanic m...@arvanta.net wrote:
For me d-m.o was (and still is) valuable resource.
Some codecs missing in Debian packages because of the policy (I don't
blame Debian for that) and in that case d-m.o is best
Jonathan McCrohan jmccro...@gmail.com writes:
I certainly don't plan on uploading and abandoning this package, but
given the high level of opposition to this ITP, guess there is little
point pursuing it.
There's some whining by the usual sorts, but why would anyone pay
attention to them...?
Ian Jackson ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk writes:
We should not still be using this software.
Er, given that gdm3 works fine for many people, that seems excessive.
Moreover, the choice of default display manager seems unrelated to its
ability to support obscure tweaks -- indeed, it's very
Ian Jackson ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk writes:
Finally, the reviewer revealed in the review that they're not a native
speaker of English. Is it normal for l10n reviews to be conducted by
non-native speakers of the target language ? Are we really so short
of native English speaking l10n
Adam Borowski kilob...@angband.pl writes:
And things may change yet again in the future. With Btrfs, one can
have a single filesystem with multiple subvolumes. The subvolumes
can be mounted independently, and also snapshotted independently,
but have a common pool for free data, so unlike
Ian Jackson ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk writes:
The 486-class processors that would no longer be supported are:
1. All x86 processors with names including '486'
I'm still running the machine below, and it would be irritating to
have to replace it.
...
vendor_id : CentaurHauls
cpu
Björn Esser bjoern.es...@googlemail.com writes:
So how shall I name it then?
Given that there isn't actually any conflict, that the two libraries
are in different domains (one C/C++, the other html/javascript), and
that neither of them appears to be heavily used (though the lib used
in yast
Jaldhar H. Vyas jald...@debian.org writes:
* Package name: libyui
the package for the Yahoo! User Interface toolkit is called libyui-js
which is bound to cause confusion. Can you rename yours to maybe
libyastui or something?
libyastui would seem sort of misleading -- from the
Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk writes:
I don’t think Debian requests FHS to document something before we can
use it. The real problem with the bizarre GNU invention that
is /usr/libexec is that nobody knows what it is here for.
It's not a GNU invention; I believe it derives from BSD.
Paul Wise p...@debian.org writes:
Not a solution for the interactive mode, or am I wrong?
Not AFAICT, I only read the documentation rather than the code though.
Kinda surprising, actually; this has long been the #1 most horrible
thing about aptitude, and one about which there's been plenty of
Jakub Adam jakub.a...@ktknet.cz writes:
With this additional support, a vast repository of C/C++ code can be
checked out, built, and maintained under the CDT rather easily without
having to resort to the command line.
Nice!
[Maybe having to resort is a bit judgemental in tone, though ...]
Adam Borowski kilob...@angband.pl writes:
AFAICT, the easiest way to handle all this is just to make a missing
cross-pkg-config look like a missing pkg-config to the configure
script. Then whatever logic the script may have for detecting the
not pkg-config at all case, will do the right
Tollef Fog Heen tfh...@err.no writes:
]] Miles Bader
|When cross-compiling, there shouldn't be any default fallback for
|pkg-config if a cross-pkg-config (${ARCH}-pkg-config) isn't found;
|the current default behavior is more harmful than useful.
You could argue this for any
Tollef Fog Heen tfh...@err.no writes:
| I don't know how pkg-config handles multiarch either, but however
| it detects the desired host arch (is it just the PKG_CONFIG_PATH
| variable?), your /usr/bin/foo-config shouldn't have to care.
Your cross-toolchain is supposed to set up a symlink from
Miles Bader mi...@gnu.org writes:
A brief browse of the pkg-config docs doesn't show any obvious
user-level way of specifying an alternate host architecture. There's
the environment variable PKG_CONFIG_SYSROOT_DIR, but that seems a
little low-level.
Also, PKG_CONFIG_SYSROOT_DIR doesn't
Simon McVittie s...@debian.org writes:
On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 at 16:53:26 +0900, Miles Bader wrote:
Tollef Fog Heen tfh...@err.no writes:
Your cross-toolchain is supposed to set up a symlink from
/usr/bin/$triplet-pkg-config to /usr/share/pkg-config-crosswrapper which
will then DTRT. That's
Simon McVittie s...@debian.org writes:
That's the missing piece of the puzzle: some sort of cross-toolchain
package (which doesn't exist yet in Debian - but neither does a
cross-gcc) should make the symlink
x86_64-w64-mingw32-pkg-config - /usr/share/pkg-config-crosswrapper
in your
Simon McVittie s...@debian.org writes:
That's the missing piece of the puzzle: some sort of cross-toolchain
package (which doesn't exist yet in Debian - but neither does a
cross-gcc) should make the symlink
x86_64-w64-mingw32-pkg-config - /usr/share/pkg-config-crosswrapper
in your
I earlier wrote:
However, the current state, where it pretends pkg-config is present,
when it really isn't in a useful way, just fools the configure script
into doing the wrong thing.
AFAICT, the easiest way to handle all this is just to make a missing
cross-pkg-config look like a missing
Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org writes:
I’m not a GNU package maintainer (unless you still consider GNOME a GNU
project), so I’m not saying anything about GNU as upstream developers,
but if you want to discuss frankly our issues with them, I hope you can
talk about RMS and the handful of
Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org writes:
Package: A
Recommends: A-plugin-B {B}
APT would be made to install A-plugin-B by default, but only if B is
installed too. In addition, it would also have to install it while
pulling B if A is already here.
It would be very nice!
I've
Simon McVittie s...@debian.org writes:
the convention is that autogen.sh *does* call ./configure
Huh? This is not my impression at all.
I'm sure there probably are packages out there where autogen.sh calls
configure, my general sense is that it usually doesn't.
Rather, autogen.m4 usually
Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org writes:
For example, Thunar works perfectly fine outside Xfce, but you don’t
want to show it in KDE or GNOME.
Why not?
Some users may prefer it to the standard app for the desktop
environment they're using.
-Miles
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Russ Allbery r...@debian.org writes:
I'm hesitant to recommend moving the documentation to /usr/share/doc/foo
when we've always put it in a directory named after the package in the
past; I'm afraid long-time Debian users won't be able to find it.
I'd certainly be confused!
Being able to just
Mark Allums m...@allums.com writes:
In my opinion, and at risk of starting a fruitless spiral into the
flames, I think Ubuntu have jumped on the crazy train with 10.10
Maverick Meerkat.
Just out of curiosity, what changed with that version...?
-Miles
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Michael Banck mba...@debian.org writes:
Just out of curiosity, what changed with that version...?
Miles, you can lookup their release notes if you like, but this question
is really unappropriate for this list.
If such information is deemed too inflammatory, an off-list reply would
be cool
Hi,
He's the maintainer of the magit package, which doesn't seem to have
received any attention in a long time. I sent email to him a few weeks
ago, but haven't received any reply.
Has anyone had contact with Marius Vollmer, or know what's up with the
magit package?
Thanks,
-Miles
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Paul Wise p...@debian.org writes:
Usually it is a good idea to CC the allegedly MIA maintainer (done on
this mail).
Have you done any of the things suggested by the devref?
http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/beyond-pkging.html#mia-qa
Thanks for the tips -- I'm not a DD, so I
Python does seem a very poor choice for this kind of application, given
the traditional bloat of a python installation, but I suppose they've
made their decision...
-Miles
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Sebastian Otaegui fen...@gmail.com writes:
Lamson's goal is to put an end to the hell that is e-mail application
development. Rather than stay stuck in the 1970s, Lamson adopts modern
web application framework design and uses a proven scripting language
(Python).
How about dropping all the
Chris Lamb la...@debian.org writes:
Agreed. IMHO, it is one of those phrases (along with Our priority is
our users) that actually means extremely little in practice, except for
generating lots of hot air with nobody agreeing.
Our priority is endless surreal flamewars over minor technicalities
Goswin von Brederlow goswin-...@web.de writes:
And why should there be. The package it totally usable and functional
as designed.
Does it properly support aptitude / synaptic / etc yet?
[The whole print a message on stdout telling the user he'd better do
something else thing was dodgy beyond
Goswin von Brederlow goswin-...@web.de writes:
Does it properly support aptitude / synaptic / etc yet?
[The whole print a message on stdout telling the user he'd better do
something else thing was dodgy beyond belief, and clearly is not
acceptable for testing.]
Sure the support isn't
Yannick yannick.roeh...@free.fr writes:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't multiarch do the same thing as ia32-
apt-get but at the distribution level?
My impression is that it's not necessarily the abstract idea of
ia32-apt-get that's so wrong, but rather the apparently clumsy way it
was
Roger Leigh rle...@codelibre.net writes:
Although I use amd64, I have yet to want to install any 32bit
software, so I'm not entirely sure what the use case is for it.
While I agree in general, I do occasionally want a more fully functional
32-bit system infrastructure. Typically this is when I
Manoj Srivastava sriva...@debian.org writes:
and documentation all over the place that assumes the Debian
default is Exim
I think that's a weakness that should be addressed regardless of what
happens with the default.
[Of course changing defaults is one way to force the issue a bit, but of
Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au writes:
You're arguing that a Reply-To header is harmful (not that I am
convinced)
That field is very useful. What's harmful is mailing-list software
munging that field, which is for the author to set and for nothing else
to fiddle with.
Yup. Reply-To
Christian Perrier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
tunnelling utility through HTTP and HTTPS proxies
to better fit the write style recommended in DevRef.
Or with correct grammar:
utility for tunneling through http and https proxies
-Miles
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Michael Tautschnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Description : Safe dialect of C
I suggest C-like compiler with improved security checks
I disagree - dialect is the proper technical term here.
Though the actual thing being compackage seems to be a compiler, so:
compiler for a safe
Dirk Eddelbuettel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
if you appreciate using Debian as a development platform, the fact
that CodeBlocks can't be built on it is IMHO a pretty critical
problem.
Why?
Maybe because not being able to build and development platform don't go so
well together?
Vadim Zeitlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
if you appreciate using Debian as a development platform, the fact
that CodeBlocks can't be built on it is IMHO a pretty critical
problem.
Why?
-Miles
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Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Umm. Why would any distributed version control system always
need history truncation? I am not even sure that arch has such a
thing; and I have never felt the need for such a beast.
A distributed VCS that bundles in the whole
Dirk Eddelbuettel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Wearing a Debian 'user' as well as 'developer' hat, I was stopped in the
tracks
a few days ago when I tried to look at some C/c++ IDE (code::blocks) which
would
not configure on my testing box due to a lack of wxWidgets 2.8.
Not nice at all. I
Enrico Tassi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Package name: lua-peg
Version: 0.7
Upstream Author: Roberto Ierusalimschy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
URL: http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/lpeg.html
License: MIT/X
Description:
LPeg is a new pattern-matching library
Stefano Zacchiroli [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I think it's going to cause a lot of confusion if you call this package
lua-peg -- _everybody_ knows it as lpeg...
Hence, I guess, the proposed name would be lua-lpeg, right?
That seems best... The crucial thing, I think, is that somebody
Osamu Aoki [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
For me, exim4 is better:
* less memory on run time
* mailname is implimented as expected by the policy.
Postfix has a reputation for being faster and more secure than exim.
Why is it worth worrying about, though? Are the difference between exim
and
Daniel Jacobowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If you enforce longer passwords than people are comfortable with, you
get weaker passwords (or poor password management practices). It's
the humans that matter, not the machines.
Exactly.
If the system is excessively anal about what passwords it
Peter Samuelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I think your problem is that you have confused our priorities are our
users... with our priority is everything icelinux believes might help
some subset of our users. To which I can only say, get over yourself.
Do you really expect any different from
Peter Samuelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If anyone knows how to limit the fontsize to 8 only for a otf/ttf
font, please contact me. (The original font is in bdf format)
If this font is intended to be used at one fixed size, why bother with
ttf/otf at all? Just ship it as bdf.
Aren't the
Roger Leigh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The packages he maintains and co-maintains are listed below. Most are
GNOME packages he has not apparently uploaded. Some are already
comaintained by others. The two of most concern are cinepaint and
cupsys-pt, which are not comaintained. cinepaint has
Klaus Ethgen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
So please calm down and come back to the reality and do not try to see
nazis in all thinks in the world.
Amen.
I'm reminded of vehement protests over a public official's use of the
word niggardly...
-Miles
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Eduard Bloch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What is not really understandable is why this stupid naming has been
kept in Windows XP.
Because nobody actually cares except control-freak types, and they're
certainly not who windows is targetting!
-Miles
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Magnus Holmgren [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
No it doesn't.
The SI binary prefixes are an abomination.
Why - besides pronunciation?
Well among other things, the end result of this whole mess will likely
be to _increase_ confusion, rather than lessen it:
Until now, in a typical computer app,
shirish [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It isn't just ubuntu or debian but this needs to be done
everywhere.
No it doesn't.
The SI binary prefixes are an abomination.
Kibibytes? Christ... [Did they try pronouncing these horrid things
when standarizing them?!?]
-Miles
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Bastian Venthur [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I agree with the sounds stupid part, although I don't belive this is a
valid argument. What I don't believe is your 80 colums argument. Could
you please name a few of the *many* programs which would have to drop
information, precision, or significantly
Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Since then, it seems like most users have switched to apt-get and
synaptic, with hardly anyone using aptitude or dselect any more
Really? I'd have guessed that most people used aptitude. I can't imagine
anyone preferring synaptic to aptitude.
Yeah,
Jari Aalto [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Le't call this wishlist if we need to be pedantic. I would still
call this a bug from a QA perspective. Quality is more than valid
syntax.
It's not a bug from any perspective, it's you trying to legislate your
personal tastes. The place for that is a rant
Ben Finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Meanwhile, the message header is about the message *as an email
message*, and the From field is supposed to be about the individual
who sent the message.
... unless there's a Sender: header, in which case _that's_ the person
who send the email, and the
Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
A few more examples below. I think lzma isn't the right thing for the
archive. p7zip seems much faster, needs a lot less ram and compression
is similar.
..
Should you be using the -9 option? The lzma help output says this:
-3 .. -9
Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
A few more examples below. I think lzma isn't the right thing for the
archive. p7zip seems much faster, needs a lot less ram and compression
is similar.
...
Lzma: 34306752 Bytes
Compressing : 19410 mrvn 0 376m 370m R 97.2 36.9 1:58.33
Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Merriam-Webster is falling into the old non-PC
over-generalization that all inhabitants of India are Hindus.
Merriam-Webster isn't falling into anything, it's a dictionary, and
dictionaries describe usage.
I know from reading old books that
Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I hate to break it to you (and I do sincerely apologize for
spoiling your innocence), but lexicons are not handed down to mankind
on tablets writ in stone as some kind of divine donation.
I was not claiming that.
Indeed, I was claiming
Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The etymology of the word is not english: (Hindu + stan). When
incorporating it into English, the word came with a well defined
meaning.
Apparently the english authors who used it didn't realize that, and I
assume their usage reflects the
Michael Banck [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Well we shouldn't keep ourselves hostage of stupid upstream behaviour,
should we?
Contrary to us, GNOME (in this case RedHat) actually employs usability
experts. Who are we to think we know better?
Actual users?
-Miles
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Josselin Mouette [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Having eog and evince in the menu serves the I want to look at a file I
know I have on my disk case. But you can open the file in the same
number of clicks but with a better interface, by launching a nautilus
window.
Better interface for some people
Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Eventually I guessed that inkscape was a newer version of sodipodi,
and not a competing program.
oh ... really?
That's one confusion cleared up...
-miles
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Steinar H. Gunderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The university here is opening up for Kerberos-enabled NFSv4 from the entire
campus network RSN. Now you know one :-)
[Isn't nfs4 rather different than previous versions, in that it's
fixed some of the most egregious nfs bogosities?]
I use nfs
Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
That's a bad example. X is a client/server system for a reason.
E.g., there is no graphical hardware for s390, yet it can still be a
good idea to use X software on s390 hardware with X terminals.
Yeah, that's the thing -- while maintainers are usually
Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
.app is pretty much meaningless. Therefore I'd prefer if you'd use a
suffix with a less arcane meaning, like -gnustep.
Does anyone truly care? Is it worth any effort to rename?
-miles
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Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting
Hendrik Sattler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Which OS combination does not define int to be 32bit on a 64bit architecture?
long should better be 64bit then as many assume that you can cast a pointer
into a long and back (e.g. timer in the linux kernel has a long for private
data and not a
Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It is also clear that this is how many maintainers have understood it,
because as you yourself have noticed, there are many packages that
assume they can ship directories in /var/run and have them remain
available after reboot. :)
I think it's more
Marc Haber [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/56. It says 76% of Debian
users run unstable and probably a fair fraction of the rest run testing.
I tend to doubt these numbers, especially if they come from a source
that is known for its Ubuntu / Canonical
martin f krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Python (and any language that depends on vast amounts of installed
infrastructure) seems a bit dodgy for a core low-level facility.
It's a great language to develop stuff at a moderate speed.
It may well be (kinda ugly though) -- but that doesn't mean
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