On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 10:38:49PM -0300, Cesar Eduardo Barros uttered:
There are a number of binaries which should go into /bin instead of /sbin or
/usr/sbin -- the full argument is at
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2001/debian-devel-200106/msg00878.html
ARGHHH!
We've been through this,
On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 10:38:49PM -0300, Cesar Eduardo Barros wrote:
I have only one thing to add to that list: traceroute should be moved, _not_
to
/usr/bin as lots of people claim, but to /bin . It's as necessary and useful
as
ping to diagnose networking trouble, and /usr might be
On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 10:38:49PM -0300, Cesar Eduardo Barros wrote:
I have only one thing to add to that list: traceroute should be moved, _not_
to
/usr/bin as lots of people claim, but to /bin . It's as necessary and useful
as
ping to diagnose networking trouble, and /usr might be
On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 11:05:59PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
I guess it says something for policy not needing to be used as a stick;
a mere 'should' has clearly sufficed.
Well, if I downgrade my must not's to should not's, would you second
the proposal?
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On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 08:36:05PM -0300, Cesar Eduardo Barros wrote:
Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.5.6.0
Severity: wishlist
Debian uses the traditional mailbox style by default. However, it has some
disadvantages over maildir -- one of them is that it does a non-reversible
On Aug 19, Cesar Eduardo Barros [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
eximconfig) and all the MUAs must be able to grok it without needing any
manual configuration
Are you offering to be the one which will patch everything and make the
upstream maintainers merge maildir support? And don't forget POP
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Marco d'Itri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
2. Benchmarking mbox versus maildir
http://www.courier-mta.org/mbox-vs-maildir/
This has to be a joke. Everybody who knows something about mail servers
can tell UW-* programs suck. The benchmark only confirms this, not that
On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 12:51:05PM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
(it usually is not, and it definitely is not for
tipical POP servers).
Still, deleting messages from a mbox-style mailbox means copying
the entire mailbox usually at least twice.
Copying it once and renaming it, surely?
On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 01:32:12PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
and broken NFS locking.
Is there any other kind?
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Debian GNU/Linux | intellectual activity ceases.
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On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 08:36:05PM -0300, Cesar Eduardo Barros wrote:
Debian uses the traditional mailbox style by default. However, it has some
disadvantages over maildir -- one of them is that it does a non-reversible
modification to the message's text if it contains the sequence 'From ' at
On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 08:31:58AM -0700, Aaron Lehmann wrote:
On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 08:36:05PM -0300, Cesar Eduardo Barros wrote:
Debian uses the traditional mailbox style by default. However, it has some
disadvantages over maildir -- one of them is that it does a non-reversible
On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 02:52:37PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 10:38:49PM -0300, Cesar Eduardo Barros wrote:
I have only one thing to add to that list: traceroute should be moved,
_not_ to
/usr/bin as lots of people claim, but to /bin . It's as necessary and
On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 02:17:40PM -0300, Cesar Eduardo Barros wrote:
See the second reference I gave in the original message...
That tells us that UW-imap sucks. And that's not news.
Previously Cesar Eduardo Barros wrote:
This proposal was not about traceroute. It was about everything else
(ifconfig,
route, mke2fs, e2fsck, etc -- everything a normal user runs and yet are at
sbin). The traceroute thing was just a footnote.
A normal user who runs ifconfig, route or mkfs?
On Aug 19, Miquel van Smoorenburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(it usually is not, and it definitely is not for
tipical POP servers).
Still, deleting messages from a mbox-style mailbox means copying
the entire mailbox usually at least twice. That can cause a heavy
A tipical POP user downloads
On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 11:06:36PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
Well, if I downgrade my must not's to should not's, would you second
the proposal?
That wasn't addressed to me, but my reaction is the same as it was to
the original proposal: this doesn't belong in policy. It belongs in
On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 02:15:40PM -0300, Cesar Eduardo Barros wrote:
This proposal was not about traceroute. It was about everything else
Oh yes, very tricky. This subterfuge had us all fooled. Bah!
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Your message dated Sun, 19 Aug 2001 16:57:51 -0300
with message-id [EMAIL PROTECTED]
and subject line I give up
has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done.
This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with.
If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen
A normal user who runs ifconfig, route or mkfs? That's about as likely as
the pope suddenly switching to budaism.
Is the pope running the Hurd?
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According to Anthony Towns:
On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 12:51:05PM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
(it usually is not, and it definitely is not for
tipical POP servers).
Still, deleting messages from a mbox-style mailbox means copying
the entire mailbox usually at least twice.
Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
A normal user who runs ifconfig, route or mkfs? That's about as
likely as the pope suddenly switching to budaism.
Since the first two's default behaviour is to *query*, and since no
special privileges are needed in order to get a reply back, it's
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