On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 11:32:54PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 03:56:17AM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 01:32:20PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > > * Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net> [20011117 01:57]: > > > > You have mentioned that you don't have much time to work on > > > > base-config, therefore I am offering to take over maintenance of > > > > this package. > > > Why don't you send in patches first? > > Othmar already has > > Patches that don't work don't really count. doesn't look like it would take hardly any work to fix it. alternativly simply remove the calls to apt-get clean altogether. i really fail to see why its acceptable to prevent dialup users from installing debian over the network, its nearly impossible to download hundreds of MB worth of packages without at least one timeout, one timeout is all thats needed for apt to bail on the install, once it does base-config happily removes all downloaded debs and you must start all over again (just ask Othmar this is precisly what happened to him). deleting these files without admin permission is simply unacceptable any way you put it, thier removal is the *admin's* decision, not yours and not joey's. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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