Re: Some thoughts for Debian.

1997-01-22 Thread Matt Kracht
On Mon, 20 Jan 1997, John Goerzen wrote: I think if debian is going to succeed, it's going to have to be reduced to a standard set of core applications that will make up the offical I *very strongly* disagree. One of the things that brought me to Debian in the first place, and kept me

Re: A proposal to improve dselect

1997-01-10 Thread Matt Kracht
On Thu, 9 Jan 1997, Ralph Winslow wrote: This seems easily addressed by honoring the Users' EDITOR environment variable setting, so why not? This may already be implemented, so forgive me if I haven't researched dselect enough: how about using a config file where we can remap all the

Re: Disk partitioning - recommended sizes

1997-01-09 Thread Matt Kracht
On Thu, 9 Jan 1997, Ronald van Loon wrote: This leaves about 2.0 Gb for the /, /usr, /var/spool and swap partitions. I have another 2.0 Gb disk and I am contemplating to put the swap partition on there (for load balancing). I estimate a need for about 250 Mb spool. Partitioning is kind