Lourens replying to Greg Folkert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 13:36, Lourens Steenkamp wrote:
Lourens replying to Greg Folkert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[big snip]
Doesn't matter to me... I have a local mirror for the 4 archs I
use.
I have
William Ballard wrote:
But keeping it clean primarily saves time. Nobody cares about disk
space.
Those running firewalls such as ipcop and APs such as pebble from
compact flash care quitea bit.
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William Ballard wrote:
...
I used to be obsessed with clean drives before I upgraded the 120MB Connor
in my Amiga. Since then, I haven't spent much time worrying about it.
But keeping it clean primarily saves time. Nobody cares about disk
space. Why download upgrades to all those
Loki wrote:
On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, Kirk Strauser wrote:
I cheated on my mirror: I installed a Squid server and pointed apt at that
proxy. That way, there's no penalty of downloading more packages than
needed, but additional hosts benefit from the packages already downloaded
by earlier hosts.
Lourens replying to Greg Folkert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[big snip]
Doesn't matter to me... I have a local mirror for the 4 archs I use.
I have also aquired a mirror (woody, sarge, sid, experimental, security
stuff, no src).
Could you tell me how you keep your mirror in sync?
TIA.
On Thursday 12 August 2004 12:36, Lourens Steenkamp wrote:
I have also aquired a mirror (woody, sarge, sid, experimental, security
stuff, no src).
Could you tell me how you keep your mirror in sync?
I cheated on my mirror: I installed a Squid server and pointed apt at that
proxy. That way,
On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 13:36, Lourens Steenkamp wrote:
Lourens replying to Greg Folkert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[big snip]
Doesn't matter to me... I have a local mirror for the 4 archs I use.
I have also aquired a mirror (woody, sarge, sid, experimental, security
stuff, no src).
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On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, Kirk Strauser wrote:
I cheated on my mirror: I installed a Squid server and pointed apt at that
proxy. That way, there's no penalty of downloading more packages than
needed, but additional hosts benefit from the packages
On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 04:04, Tong Sun wrote:
Looking at the packages I installed, I know there
would be lots of them that I will never use. E.g.,
kscreensaver ktux xscreensaver kdewallpapers atlantik
atlantikdesigner gnome-games gnome-games-data katomic
kbackgammon kbattleship kblackbox
On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 07:58:45 +0100, Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It might in the future lead to some
hiccups; for example, if a new and necessary dependency were to be added
to kde, you would miss it. Arguably, that would be added at the wrong
level, though.
Yes I think it would -
On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 09:16:19PM -0700, William Ballard wrote:
On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 10:27:58PM -0500, matt zagrabelny wrote:
On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 22:04, Tong Sun wrote:
try the 4th time.
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 14:56:21 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Obsessed with a clean system
On Tuesday 10 August 2004 22:04, Tong Sun wrote:
Anybody here is as obsessed as I am for a clean system?
No. Drives are cheap, but my time is not. I have a ridiculous number of
packages installed (because Debian makes it cheap to experiment and I don't
get too worked up about removing the
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 10:28:24AM -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote:
On Tuesday 10 August 2004 22:04, Tong Sun wrote:
Anybody here is as obsessed as I am for a clean system?
No. Drives are cheap, but my time is not. I have a ridiculous number of
packages installed (because Debian makes it
On Wednesday 11 August 2004 10:33, William Ballard wrote:
But keeping it clean primarily saves time. Nobody cares about disk
space. Why download upgrades to all those packages you never need?
Why fight broken upgrades on things?
The OP did - he was deleting the contents of packages but
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 08:33:49AM -0700, William Ballard wrote:
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 10:28:24AM -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote:
On Tuesday 10 August 2004 22:04, Tong Sun wrote:
Anybody here is as obsessed as I am for a clean system?
No. Drives are cheap, but my time is not. I have
On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 12:32:12AM +0300, Micha Feigin wrote:
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 08:33:49AM -0700, William Ballard wrote:
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 10:28:24AM -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote:
On Tuesday 10 August 2004 22:04, Tong Sun wrote:
Anybody here is as obsessed as I am for a clean system?
On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 11:33, William Ballard wrote:
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 10:28:24AM -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote:
On Tuesday 10 August 2004 22:04, Tong Sun wrote:
Anybody here is as obsessed as I am for a clean system?
No. Drives are cheap, but my time is not. I have a ridiculous
try the 4th time.
Date:Tue, 10 Aug 2004 14:56:21 -0700 (PDT)
Subject:Obsessed with a clean system
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
Anybody here is as obsessed as I am for a clean
system?
Looking at the packages I installed, I know there
would be lots of them that I will never use
On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 22:04, Tong Sun wrote:
try the 4th time.
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 14:56:21 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Obsessed with a clean system
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
Anybody here is as obsessed as I am for a clean
system?
Looking at the packages I installed, I know
On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 22:27:58 -0500
matt zagrabelny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 22:04, Tong Sun wrote:
Anybody here is as obsessed as I am for a clean
system?
Looking at the packages I installed, I know there
would be lots of them that I will never use. E.g.,
* Tong Sun [EMAIL PROTECTED] [040811 05:04]:
Looking at the packages I installed, I know there
would be lots of them that I will never use. E.g.,
[..]
I don't want them, but I have to keep them. This to me
is a huge list.
Why do you have to keep them?
Yours sincerely,
Alexander
On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 10:27:58PM -0500, matt zagrabelny wrote:
On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 22:04, Tong Sun wrote:
try the 4th time.
Date:Tue, 10 Aug 2004 14:56:21 -0700 (PDT)
Subject:Obsessed with a clean system
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
Anybody here is as obsessed
Tong Sun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| Anybody here is as obsessed as I am for a clean
| system?
|
| Looking at the packages I installed, I know there
| would be lots of them that I will never use. E.g.,
Two of the most useful Debian tools in this regard are `deborphan' and
`debfoster' (both
Once upon a time Jim McCloskey said...
Tong Sun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| Anybody here is as obsessed as I am for a clean
| system?
|
| Looking at the packages I installed, I know there
| would be lots of them that I will never use. E.g.,
Two of the most useful Debian tools in this
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