Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-20 Thread Steve Greenland
technical list. No amount of technical input can compensate for the hostility and stupidity that those kind of posts promote. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world

Re: Can a Package be installed that only effects 1 user account?

2002-05-21 Thread Steve Greenland
unless they explicitely call it. One thing to check is that the /usr/bin/cc link doesn't get changed to egcs; if it does, you'll have to reset it using update-alternatives. Note the liberal use of weasel terms like doubt and should... Steve -- Steve Greenland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: vim 6.0 packages

2001-09-29 Thread Steve Greenland
what priorities they've been assigned.) Steve -- Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [users] Re: Time to fight for our beloved DEB format!

2001-07-04 Thread Steve Greenland
On 03-Jul-01, 17:50 (CDT), Ethan Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 12:40:05PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: the benifit is leaving what all 4 of those runlevels do solely up to YOU not some so called standards body. sarcasmSo we should get rid of the FHS as well

Re: [users] Re: Time to fight for our beloved DEB format!

2001-07-03 Thread Steve Greenland
gratuitous is the separate library loader. Steve -- Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Please do not CC me on mail sent to this list; I subscribe to and read every list I post to.)

Re: PLEASE: standard package README file/orientation

2000-08-24 Thread Steve Greenland
On 23-Aug-00, 18:17 (CDT), Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... Current policy requires that /usr/doc/package exist (possibly as a symlink to /usr/share/doc/package). Then why don't more package implement that policy? Because they're

Re: PLEASE: standard package README file/orientation

2000-08-23 Thread Steve Greenland
On 22-Aug-00, 23:12 (CDT), Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some packages don't have a documentation directory at all. Then they are in violation of the Debian policy. Current policy requires that /usr/doc/package exist (possibly as a symlink to /usr/share/doc/package). Some others do

Re: Long time Debian user with semi-technical question

2000-04-25 Thread Steve Greenland
On 24-Apr-00, 23:02 (CDT), Andrew Weiss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been using Debian since the old A.out days of Debian 1.0, and I was wondering since I am doing development of our company's own Linux distribution based on Debian... I have potato as the base and am beginning to customize

Re: glibc-compat ???

2000-03-24 Thread Steve Greenland
*Plus reports v 8.1.5) with the latest patches (as of a month ago) on a potato box with no obvious problems, I don't have any compatibility libs installed. steve -- Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Please do not CC me on mail sent to this list; I subscribe to and read every list I post to.)

Re: [RfS] Request for Submissions: Upcoming Debian Logo

1999-02-19 Thread Steve Greenland
On 18-Feb-99, 17:33 (CST), Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.uk wrote: Martin Schulze wrote: I'd like *everybody* think about a possible logo. Please notice the following simple rules: . A logo is NOT a set of letters. Thus the string Debian rendered very nice is ... a picture

Re: * Formal call for the removal of Bruce Perens *

1997-10-25 Thread Steve Greenland
this being the last time. Bruce: Don't back down to this paranoid jerk. Just hope he goes away. Steve Greenland -- The Mole - I think, therefore I scream Gee... these guys really ARE impervious! [The Badger vs. demon bike gangs from Hell. Guess who wins