Re: Proposal regarding future packaging

2007-09-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Ken Spath [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Proposal regarding future packaging: Add an additional manual page to new/future/updated packages that is the same as the package name. IF and only IF there would NOT be a conflict with an existant necessary manual page AND IF there is no binary

Re: Proposal regarding future packaging

2007-09-23 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 19:12:29 + (UTC), Oleg Verych [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: 23-09-2007, Manoj Srivastava: [] It doesn't catch files created by Maintainer scripts? This is the design flaw in those scripts (even in whole package management). I am not sure you have made your case here.

Re: Proposal regarding future packaging

2007-09-22 Thread Oleg Verych (Gmane)
21-09-2007, Bruce Sass: On Thu September 20 2007 09:25:23 pm Oleg Verych (Gmane) wrote: 19-09-2007, Bruce Sass: I'm hoping the dpkg triggers functionality Ian Jackson has been working on will help solve that wart though. How exactly? Exactly? I don't know. I haven't followed what is

Re: Proposal regarding future packaging

2007-09-22 Thread Bruce Sass
On Sat September 22 2007 12:16:18 am Oleg Verych (Gmane) wrote: 21-09-2007, Bruce Sass: On Thu September 20 2007 09:25:23 pm Oleg Verych (Gmane) wrote: 19-09-2007, Bruce Sass: I'm hoping the dpkg triggers functionality Ian Jackson has been working on will help solve that wart though.

Re: Proposal regarding future packaging

2007-09-22 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 03:46:26 -0600, Bruce Sass [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Sat September 22 2007 12:16:18 am Oleg Verych (Gmane) wrote: 21-09-2007, Bruce Sass: On Thu September 20 2007 09:25:23 pm Oleg Verych (Gmane) wrote: 19-09-2007, Bruce Sass: I'm hoping the dpkg triggers

Re: Proposal regarding future packaging

2007-09-22 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 03:25:23 + (UTC), Oleg Verych (Gmane) [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: 19-09-2007, Bruce Sass: [] I like this too. Finding what a package has just installed is one of the biggest holes in Debian right now, IMO. I have to use dpkg -L to figure this out, and that's just too

Re: Proposal regarding future packaging

2007-09-20 Thread David Given
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Goerzen wrote: [...] Too crude? That's a simple command, easily found in a relevant manpage. In true Unix fashion, its output can be easily piped to other commands. What's crude about it? Well, it doesn't actually tell me what I need to

Re: Proposal regarding future packaging

2007-09-20 Thread Oleg Verych (Gmane)
19-09-2007, Bruce Sass: [] I like this too. Finding what a package has just installed is one of the biggest holes in Debian right now, IMO. I have to use dpkg -L to figure this out, and that's just too crude to be a real solution. Too crude? That's a simple command, easily found in a

Re: Proposal regarding future packaging

2007-09-20 Thread Bruce Sass
On Thu September 20 2007 09:25:23 pm Oleg Verych (Gmane) wrote: 19-09-2007, Bruce Sass: I'm hoping the dpkg triggers functionality Ian Jackson has been working on will help solve that wart though. How exactly? Exactly? I don't know. I haven't followed what is happening close enough.

Re: Proposal regarding future packaging

2007-09-19 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
John H. Robinson, IV wrote: Ken Spath wrote: Proposal regarding future packaging: Add an additional manual page to new/future/updated packages that is the same as the package name. IF and only IF there would NOT be a conflict with an existant necessary manual page AND IF there is no binary

Re: Proposal regarding future packaging

2007-09-19 Thread David Given
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John H. Robinson, IV wrote: [...] I like this idea, especially if there were a short description about each program and relevent configuration files. I like this too. Finding what a package has just installed is one of the biggest holes in Debian

Re: Proposal regarding future packaging

2007-09-19 Thread John Goerzen
On Wednesday 19 September 2007 5:43:03 pm David Given wrote: John H. Robinson, IV wrote: [...] I like this idea, especially if there were a short description about each program and relevent configuration files. I like this too. Finding what a package has just installed is one of the

Re: Proposal regarding future packaging

2007-09-19 Thread Bruce Sass
On Wed September 19 2007 04:53:10 pm John Goerzen wrote: On Wednesday 19 September 2007 5:43:03 pm David Given wrote: John H. Robinson, IV wrote: [...] I like this idea, especially if there were a short description about each program and relevent configuration files. I like this

Proposal regarding future packaging

2007-09-18 Thread Ken Spath
Proposal regarding future packaging: Add an additional manual page to new/future/updated packages that is the same as the package name. IF and only IF there would NOT be a conflict with an existant necessary manual page AND IF there is no binary in a package that is the same as the package name

Re: Proposal regarding future packaging

2007-09-18 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Am Dienstag 18 September 2007 schrieb Ken Spath: If after I install casu or netdiag, I type man casu or man netdiag there is nothing. whereis / find / apt-cache search / apt-file search were necessary How many current debian users and users of forked distributions know of apt-file or even