On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 06:17:40PM +0200, Thomas Schoepf was heard to say:
How are those Packages(.gz) files on ftp.debian.org created? Is there a
.deb package available for download that provides that functionality?
I believe that dpkg-scanpackages, available in the dpkg-dev package,
On Wed, May 19, 1999 at 02:51:20AM +0200, Gabor Fleischer was heard to say:
Hi everyone,
[snip]
There could be a value in the control file like: Last-changed-version or
something similar. apt/dselect could decide from this wether it
needs to download this
On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 03:35:47PM +0200, Federico Di Gregorio was heard to say:
Scavenging the mail folder resulted in Patrick Bertholon writing:
Hello,
I'm making a program using Linux pthread, from the glibc 2.0.7t.
There are few points that I'd like to
On Wed, May 19, 1999 at 08:15:21PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo was heard to say:
OTOH, I wonder how much benefit binary diffs could really give. Since
every .deb is mostly gzip compressed data, wouldn't you often need to
retrieve the whole thing again anyway?
I believe in the thread I was
Perfect timing, I was just going to prod debian-devel about this over the
weekend..
On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 12:56:04PM -0400, Jordan Mendelson was heard to say:
Just a quick idea, instead of having to download an entire package where 95%
of the files don't change, what about downloading a
On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 11:57:44AM -0700, Joey Hess was heard to say:
Ben Gertzfield wrote:
This is great, Joey!
Can you show an example of how to use apt-get to *skip* configuration
questions altogether?
Assumming you have debconf installed, edit /etc/apt/apt.conf, make it look
like
Another question -- I realize the proposed API has been out for a while, but
is it possible that the TEXT command could be modified to take a priority?
There are probably notifications that the maintainer scripts could display
which some people would be interested in but many would not, and
On Tue, Aug 31, 1999 at 09:43:03PM +0800, Mikolaj J. Habryn was heard to say:
sawmill README:
Sawmill is an extensible window manager using an Emacs Lisp-like
scripting language--all window decorations are configurable, the basic
idea is to have as much user-interface policy as possible
On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 08:35:06AM -0700, Darren Benham was heard to say:
What do you think?
- Forwarded message from Samuel Tardieu [EMAIL PROTECTED] -
On 21/09, Darren Benham wrote:
| And do what... there are going to be keys that aren't in the debian
keyring..
On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 05:24:32PM +, Dale Scheetz was heard to say:
Well, in recovering my system, it became necessary to install dpkg-dev,
who's current version requires perl5. I chose to upgrade to perl-5.005,
but while installing perl-5.005-base I was forced to use
--auto-deconfigure
Sorry to interrupt the flamew^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hdiscussion here, but I have a
quick question.
On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 12:01:22PM +, Roland Rosenfeld was heard to say:
One again: they are *not* accessible via these symlinks!
They are.
Well, maybe. (see below)
This may work sometimes
On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 04:11:08PM -0400, Bill White was heard to say:
Is it possible to upgrade from slink to potato using a 56k modem connection?
If it takes 650Mb to upgrade everything it is not possible. If it is,
my problems are solved, of course.
Thanks.
If you pay for
On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 12:54:32AM +, David Coe was heard to say:
[quoting RMS]
But in another sense it is not GNU software, because we can't use
XEmacs in the GNU system: using it would mean paying a price in
terms of our ability to enforce the GPL. Some of the people who have
On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 02:16:31PM +1000, Craig Sanders was heard to say:
And if the package has a dependency?
There are many situations dealing with the package system that can
lead to daemons installing without your knowledge. mtools for potato
includes floppyd, if someone upgrades a
On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 05:29:29AM -0700, Kenneth Scharf was heard to say:
They said that the beta of their linux distro will be
available for public download by the end of October.
Hm. Do you have any information about the following issues:
- How big is it? The only spare partition I
On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 08:54:14PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman was heard to say:
Previously Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
ishtar:~ dpkg --search /usr/bin/nsgmls
sp: /usr/bin/nsgmls
^^
That only means you have it installed. Now try this:
[lightning:~]-10 dpkg --print-avail nsgmls
Package
Hello,
I was just poking around on my system and found a script I wrote back when
kernel 2.2 was released. It was an experiment to see if I could easily handle
registration and deregistration of binary formats (with binfmt_misc) -- it
just occured to me that Debian might be interested in it,
On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 09:44:25AM -0400, Raul Miller was heard to say:
A wonderfuly horrible hack has occurred to me, by the way: A cron job
which runs every minute: /bin/sh -c exit || /sbin/rebuild-bin-sh
Hmm. There's a bit of a problem here: aren't cronjobs executed
with /bin/sh? :)
Oops.
On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 10:06:02AM -0400, Daniel Burrows was heard to say:
test -e /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc || exit 0
That maybe should be test -d ... (although the above works even on ash)
Daniel
--
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped
On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 11:30:04AM -0400, Raul Miller was heard to say:
On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 10:06:02AM -0400, Daniel Burrows wrote:
[ as I understand it, a security 'breach' could only occur with this
system if a user had execute permissions but *not* read permissions
on a file
On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 12:41:51PM -0700, Joey Hess was heard to say:
It looks like the doom source is now under the GPL.
(http://www.doomworld.com/). This clears up the previous licencing problems
that were keeping it out of debian. It will still be fit only for contrib
for now, since it
On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 09:37:02AM +1000, Brian May was heard to say:
Packages such as Wine, Kaffe, dosemu, and perhaps Frotz would drop a file
into this directory announcing their support of a binary format. The files
wouldn't actually be interpreted unless this init.d script is installed;
On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 12:26:18PM +0100, Edward Betts was heard to say:
Could I clarify some stuff please?
Are we proposing that all mime-types have binfmt_misc setup? Does that mean,
the kernel will be able to `run' any file in mailcap? Is that what we really
want?
I'm not; I just
On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 08:44:48PM +0200, Staffan Hämälä was heard to say:
Hi,
I'm just curious about how other people succeed in installing the
potato release.
*raises hand*
I've actually done two things -- the machine I'm typing on has been running
unstable since before Slink was
On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 10:18:51PM +0200, Marek Habersack was heard to say:
I'm trying to virtualize in.telnetd to access a chrooted virtual server
(using tcp_wrappers' twist option and Wietse's chrootuid utility).
Everything works just fine until the in.telnetd from chrooted location is
My system upgrade today (from yesterday's potato to today's potato) produced
the following odd output:
Setting up tk8.2 (8.2.0-3) ...
Checking available versions of wish, updating links in /etc/alternatives ...
(You may modify the symlinks there yourself if desired - see `man ln'.)
Leaving wish
On Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 02:12:08PM +0200, Staffan Hämälä was heard to say:
NO, NO, NO, this is not redhat.com! Do this on a Debian only if you really
know what you are doing or you may destroy your system.
As far as I can see there is often not another way to do it.
Ie., program complains
On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 03:30:29PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman was heard to say:
Previously Daniel Burrows wrote:
My system upgrade today (from yesterday's potato to today's potato)
produced
the following odd output:
What version of dpkg do you have?
Wichert.
Currently 1.4.1.13
On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 05:21:31PM -0400, Andrew Pimlott was heard to say:
See bug 37252--I believe it is responsible for what you are seeking.
tkstep8.0 registers slave alternatives (under wish) for
/usr/man/man1/wish8.0.1.gz and /usr/bin/wish8.0 . This is bad because 1)
tk8.0 does not
On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 08:26:00AM -0500, Daniel Burrows was heard to say:
What gets me is that aptitude, apt-get, deselect, and gnome-apt all
seem to give slightly different info on which packages
are broken, will be deleted, or are on hold. Are the
dependancy rules interperted
On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 04:26:34PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL
PROTECTED] was heard to say:
Nicolas Boullis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 12:13:48PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote:
Hello Debian developers,
When doing research about circular-deps, I looked at a
On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 12:28:36AM -0800, Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED]
was heard to say:
On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 08:58:45AM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote:
Will all the tools resolving the dependencies be fine with a dependency
on a virtual package without one an a real package ? (like for
On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 08:25:49PM +0100, Simon Richter [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
-default sound setup
Sound is symptomatic of a much larger class of problems, namely that
there is no system service that forwards resources other than display
and keyboard to the user currently
The attached text is a first draft of a proposed extension to the
Description field to explicitly handle bulleted lists. The extended
syntax allows list items to be treated specially by frontends (for
instance, bullet characters can be replaced with graphics, and the
body of the list item can
On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 06:38:59PM -0500, sean finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 03:09:52PM -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote:
The attached text is a first draft of a proposed extension to the
Description field to explicitly handle bulleted lists. The extended
On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 05:49:02PM -0600, Peter Samuelson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
was heard to say:
[Daniel Burrows]
(1) The first line begins with N 2 spaces,
Don't you mean N = 2?
(2) The first non-space character of the first line is a bullet
character, and
(3) Each
On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 12:01:52AM +, Roger Leigh [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
Daniel Burrows [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The attached text is a first draft of a proposed extension to the
Description field to explicitly handle
On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 01:21:41AM +0100, Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL
PROTECTED] was heard to say:
On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 03:09:52PM -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote:
Extensions to the syntax of Description blocks:
As mentioned above, all lines beginning with two or more spaces
On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 12:51:55AM +0100, Jiří Paleček [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
On Wed, 04 Jan 2006 19:50:14 +0100, Linas Zvirblis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Jiri Palecek wrote:
How does aptitude decide which one to choose? Shouldn't it
prefer to do something that won't break
On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 02:34:32PM +0900, Charles Plessy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
was heard to say:
As stated by the Debian Policy Manual :
The Depends field should be used if the depended-on package is required
for the depending package to provide a significant amount of
functionality.
and
On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 11:41:25AM +0900, Miles Bader [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
Daniel Burrows [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[0] alert readers will note that the caveat if the user waits for a
sufficient amount of time has to be added here; however, this is typically
much less than
On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 10:57:22AM +0900, Miles Bader [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
Daniel Burrows [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
When you say that normal operation is getting slower, do you mean just
the load time or its overall performance? The time required to load
in all the state
On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 04:25:52PM +0100, Jérôme Warnier [EMAIL PROTECTED]
was heard to say:
Le vendredi 20 janvier 2006 à 14:17 +, Paul Brossier a écrit :
On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 04:09:28AM -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote:
[Jérôme Warnier]
Or even better: a list of all packages
On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 12:20:25PM +0100, Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
Andreas Barth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Actually, in case stockholm gets elected,
Sorry, where's the Wiki page describing codenames for DPL candidates?
Wait, you mean we aren't putting European
On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 08:03:15PM -0500, Will Barton was heard to say:
I dont believe that this is a problem with Mozilla itself, because the binary
tarball of M14 works fine with M13 prefrences. Its only after you install the
deb that this go crazy.
Has anyone else used both the deb and
On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 03:15:04AM -0600, BugScan reporter was heard to say:
Package: gnomeicu (debian/main)
Maintainer: Edward C. Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED]
58919 gnomeicu causes XServer to grab all the memory.
I think there was a discussion on -devel that concluded that there's some
On Sat, Mar 11, 2000 at 04:37:11PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog was heard to say:
Le Sat, Mar 11, 2000 at 07:06:24PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt écrivait:
Trouble ahead?
Please run apt-get install apt before doing the dist-upgrade. Old apt
don't manage well the perl transition. This will be documented
On Sat, Mar 11, 2000 at 08:32:07PM -0400, Nicolás Lichtmaier was heard to say:
Trouble ahead?
Please run apt-get install apt before doing the dist-upgrade. Old apt
don't manage well the perl transition. This will be documented in the
Release Notes.
Why don't we make the new perls
It seems to me that a better way to do this (in the abstract case :) ) would
be to librarify dpkg -- that is, to make a libdpkg which approximately parallels
libapt. This would also have the effect of solving some annoying quirks in the
apt/dpkg interaction which are caused (if I remember
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 09:40:56AM +0100, Radovan Garabik was heard to say:
An elegant solution wouldbe to use escape only as a character escaping the
next
char, i.e. prefix for control chars, and what we know as an escape character
would be represented as Esc Esc.
But this would probably
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 10:50:03AM +0100, Richard Braakman was heard to say:
[snip]
59909 cvs: cvs segfaults when commiting a dir
FWIW, I've never seen this bug.
Package: rep-gtk (debian/main).
Maintainer: Mikolaj J. Habryn [EMAIL PROTECTED]
58684 rep-gtk_0.8-2(unstable): build error
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 12:15:42PM -0800, Joey Hess was heard to say:
Daniel Burrows wrote:
It might not -- most programs (most!) use curses, and very few try to
actually
catch Escape (due to the historical problems with it). So (a) if curses
(and
slang?) were modified to handle
]
Daniel
[1] not that anything is being dequeued at the moment..*sigh*..
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On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 05:36:12PM -0400, Daniel Burrows [EMAIL PROTECTED]
was heard to say:
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 05:32:26PM +0200, Bernd Eckenfels [EMAIL PROTECTED]
was heard to say:
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 03:49:27PM -0700, Michael Meskes wrote:
Could anyone please explain this to me
On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 06:36:34AM +0200, Bernd Eckenfels [EMAIL PROTECTED]
was heard to say:
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 05:37:52PM -0400, Daniel Burrows wrote:
(especially since this looks like just the well-established behavior of
downloading changed packages..)
I dont have a example
nicer-looking slang frontend
which doesn't suffer from this problem; maybe we can just ditch dialog
eventually and use that?
Daniel
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I've been curious about since noticing that Lame supports
Vorbis: why would you use Lame to encode a Vorbis file when Vorbis comes with
its own encoder? Am I missing something?
Daniel
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Does anyone else find it ironic that licq-plugin-gtk+ was finally installed
into the archive today? Guess it wouldn't be Debian if it was on time ;-)
Daniel
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On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 10:26:30AM +1200, Michael Beattie [EMAIL PROTECTED]
was heard to say:
On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 06:02:01PM -0400, Daniel Burrows wrote:
Does anyone else find it ironic that licq-plugin-gtk+ was finally
installed
into the archive today? Guess it wouldn't be Debian
On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 06:32:10PM -0400, Daniel Burrows [EMAIL PROTECTED]
was heard to say:
Away put your flamethrowers! I mean you no harm!
Not that there were any flamethrowers coming out, but this line was too good
to pass up.
(I think my brain has been addled from too much Nethack
a file, so doing anything else with the computer
caused breakups. I'm surprised, actually, that you don't see problems;
by that standard, shouldn't it be eating at least 50% of your CPU time?
Daniel
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| If you're reading
the problem is that free MP3 encoders are illegal in large areas of
the world :-(
Daniel
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keys or do something highly unexpected. (you can
disable this in bash, but then some other stuff (legitimate control chars)
breaks, and since I only type umlauts on the command-line very occasionally,
it wasn't worth the effort to fix)
Daniel
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of configuration. (don't worry
about it now, but maybe eventually..)
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| welcome. | to find or make a Reason for everything
do with my
opinion :)
Daniel
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On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 11:08:17PM -0400, Jacob Kuntz [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
Daniel Burrows ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Erm, how many 'newbies' are going to know what a class A vs class C
network
is, or what a gateway is, versus the number who'll freak out and run
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 07:20:54PM +0200, Frederic Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED]
was heard to say:
Daniel Burrows wrote :
I've been thinking along these lines too, but didn't want to mention it as
I'm not likely to be able to help implement it. I'm thinking in terms of
something slightly
in the process of doing that. See
http://incoming.debian.org if you don't believe me.
Actions speak louder than words (IMO), or should.
Daniel
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and configure a Web server (!!) to set up the machine, for the same
reason I object to needing a Web server to view documentation (eg, doc-central
depends on apache).
Daniel
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between this program and dd? I
assume there is one, or it wouldn't mention specific partition formats..
Daniel
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| You will soon forget this. |
\-Evil Overlord, Inc
or a tar clone, and I'm wondering what
the difference is between it and those programs.
Daniel
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| You keep on using that word. I do not think it means|
|what you think it means
nevermind, I'm stupid. I see it on the homepage now.
Daniel, crawling into a hole in the ground for the second time in a week..
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the standard reply function.
Daniel
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| -- Terry Pratchett, _Small
this is the problem..
g++ 3.0 handled the std namespace incorrectly and let you get away
with this. g++ 3.0 requires that you either declare using std or explicitly
say std::string getString().
Not looking forward to fixing this in all my own code,
Daniel
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of Japanese who want meaningful discussions use the English
language (Content-Type: US-ASCII) on Debian mailing-lists.
I dunno, I like this sort of spam a lot more than spam I can read. It's
much more trivial to discard :-)
Daniel
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/aptitude_0.1.6-1_i386.deb
(replace http.us with your local mirror; source is available in the same
directory)
Thanks,
Daniel
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|The only thing worse than infinite recursion
of ~/.xsession?
Daniel
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| Everything else is tied for first. |
\-- A duck
but
one package archive in /etc/apt/sources.list)
Daniel
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| that looks bigger the farther away
on this in their description.
(sorry, I don't remember which)
Daniel
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| Genius may have its limitations, |
| but stupidity is not thus handicapped
this mean #45943 will finally be fixed?
Daniel
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| Is it too late to extricate myself |
| from this plot line
that information; the first sentence on
http://ddtp.debian.org tells you it..
Daniel
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| Fluble, the others want you to know that we|
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with the tools, it's a problem with the
installation process (which currently does just about zero hardware
detection for you, and isn't smart enough to pre-install those packages)
Daniel
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) by adding an extra space character at the start of the line in
question.
On the other hand, a proper markup language would be nice.
Daniel
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| Somewhere, just out of sight, the unicorns are gathering
On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 07:49:04PM -0600, John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
Daniel Burrows writes:
On the other hand, a proper markup language would be nice.
I would be appalled were such a thing to be required.
I didn't say I thought it was politically possible to do
; kernel
versions 2.4.20 and greater will meet this requirement.
(or something to that effect, that's a bit awkward)
Daniel
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innocent looking package, which
would install about 1G of stuff on your hard drive if you followed all
suggests, but I can't remember what it was now)
Daniel
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| A game which, from the viewpoint of the other
keeping up with the rate at which people are shovel^Wadding stuff
into the archive.
Daniel
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. Oh, and lines beginning with a period which contain other
letters are reserved for future expansion.
There may be more, I don't remember perfectly.
Daniel
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| Note that fires are not restricted
. And last time I tried (about a year ago, I think)
mounting NTFS read-write on Linux was still flaky.
That may be true, but most of the Windows users I know still have a 95
variant on their computer.
Daniel
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,
it would be easy to modify apt-listchanges to use this data.
Or anything else, although apt-listchanges might be nicer. aptitude
used to do this (slightly hackily), before the Web-available changelogs
vanished.
Daniel
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| Inconceivable! |
|-- The Princess Bride
?
Daniel
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On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 04:19:07PM -0500, H. S. Teoh [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
So much for write-once, run-anywhere.
Did anyone ever believe that?
Daniel
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