Re: Some comments about the paper
El mar, 28-09-2004 a las 20:38 +0200, Andreas Tille escribió:
> On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, Miguel A. [ISO-8859-1] Arévalo wrote:
>
> Well, what if one user is member of two CDDs. I think just building
> a user menu after a run of apt-get (not after each package installation)
> is acceptable because it runs in background and no real problem. This
> works with current tools and *every* "menu-displaying app". Else you
> would have to change *every* window-manager etc. We are really
> happy that most of them work with current debian menu system.
>
> But there is also fvwm, GnuStep, ... (I guess we have about 50 menu
> displaing applications).
>
> I'm no guru, but I guess we have a quite good solution if not focussed
> only on Gnome + KDE.
Of course I was talking about the "perfect" solution, having a working
solution is better than having no solution. ;-)
>
> > This paragraph can be completely left out of the document. and
> > the /etc/group referal changed to the apropiate libc function call (I
> > hope you are not parsing /etc/group, I'm migrating to nss_ldap at this
> > moment ;-)
> Does the code-snippet
>
> for user in `getent group ${ROLE} ...`
>
> answer your question?
>
Yep, right.
> > And the point of having a new freeze dist.
> This is not really new because we had this before we had package pools,
> but it was dropped in favour of packages pools and now testing becomes
> freeze for the time of freeze (while there is no testing at this time).
> I do not really see the gain here (and as I said - just discuss this
> with people on debian-devel).
>
Anyway this point is out of the scope of this list.
> Uhm, you do not need to be brave here. There are as kind people as
> you might find here. The sheer number of people is larger and you might
> tap on someones shoes - but there is no need to hide ideas.
>
Probably I'm just lazy.
> > Well, I think that if we have it on the wiki, as a starting point, but
> > this will give a great visibility to the project.
> I can assure you for myself that I would definitely do not do anything
> like editing a Wiki after having filed a bug report.
>
Well, but there should be a way to know the status of the project, it
can be on the g-forge infrasture or something like that.
Regards,
Miguel A. Arévalo
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