Paul O'Malley - gnu's not unix - wrote:
Some people are not subscribed to the list but read it though things
like gmane.
I am one of those, although I don't remember if I subscribed before
the newsgroup became available. Maybe I disabled mail delivery after
that, or (unlikely) unsubscribed.
Graziano Sorbaioli wrote:
Maybe we should have someone doing a libre gnu thunderbird software just
as there is a libre gnu firefox one.
GNU mail? :)
That would be confused with GNUMail [1], the GNUstep MUA. Plus, there
alrady is GNU mail, GNU's implementation of the standard mail program
aurele wrote:
just to say that I found some C# and mono line in gfax.
There are lots of Mono applications in gNS -- gfax, bless, etc.
This is not a problem when they are not installed by default.
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Daniel Clark wrote:
Nevermind the last message, I think I was just being silly; can't we
just copy the GFDL doc packages from Debian's non-free section?
Not all are available, for example GNU Mailutils. And not all are
always on par with the program version behavior (the non-free (sic)
docs
Karl Goetz wrote:
Please don't place it directly under /usr/share/info.
Why not? That's the place where it should be, both according to the
GNU Coding Standards and the FHS to which Debian adheres to.
Perhaps /usr/share/doc/gnudocs or some such.
Useless, as all info browsers should be
Karl Goetz wrote:
Should x11-common be fixed not to refer to xv?
That means recompiling dozens (hundreds?) of packages for no gain
other then to remove 10 characters from a meta file.
Why do you think so? I haven't investigated closely, but it seems to
me that rebuilding x11-common with xv
To which part?
To changing the package control file without rebuilding it.
This is not feasible on the long run, as Karl has explained.
We need to alter the binary package, I guess.
No, the reliable way to do it is to modify xorg's debian/control file,
but IIUC Karl thinks this is not
This is not feasible on the long run, as Karl has explained.
I have not seen an explanation, only a statement claiming this is so.
The problem you and all gNS users observe when they do
`aptitude|apt-get install xv' stems from the fact that the `xv'
package (which does not exist in the
Another way is to define a list of suppressed packages,
and set up apt-get so that it disregards anything that other packages
say about those suppressed packages.
This is easy and modular.
Not modular at all: There might be another `xv' package one day, which
has nothing to do with the
Steven McDonald wrote:
Some potential disadvantages of OSSv4 are:
* Porting all applications -- that's hell of a job. REALLY.
Traditionally, sound-related applications have been using OSS. When
ALSA came up, almost all of them got ported to it, and this took quite
some time. Now that OSS
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