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Re: [gNewSense-users] vrms
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Karl Goetz |
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Re: [gNewSense-users] vrms |
Date: |
Tue, 07 Nov 2006 13:39:23 +1030 |
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Andrew Wigglesworth wrote:
On Monday 06 November 2006 22:13, Vim Visual wrote:
Hi,
there are a couple of things I don't understand
1- why is the kernel 2.6.15? (is 2.6.18.2 by now)
because we are using ubuntu dapper as codebase, which has a .15 kernel.
2- why not having the latest vim (7.0)?
see above.
3- OpenOffice is also a bit outdated and many other packages
see above.
A package I would include per default is vrms. It's the perfect tool
to find ou how many packages are free or not in your box (Virtual
Richard M Stallman)
yeh, i wouldnt argue actually, but on a free system it seems redundant ;)
I would suggest that the project includes it and that it is launched
automatically from time to time as a kind of pop-up window (with the
option "i don't want any notifications in the future" vailable, not to
annoy people)
i will argue this until you kill me off.
poping up windows for no good reason is annoying, and in this case
blatantly unneeded. vrms emails you a report every month out of the box
(which wont work on ubuntu and i assume gns because of a broken mail
server).
Trim a bit.
How accurate is vms though?
I've just run it on my installation of gNewSense and this was the result:
=============================
address@hidden:~$ vrms
vrms: ERROR- Badly formed dpkg-status entry #1231!
pkg=[emacs], pkgstatus=[install ok installed], section=[]
Non-free packages installed on vostok
ttf-gentium Gentium TrueType font
1 non-free packages, 0.1% of 1266 installed packages.
===============================
I had the same error, but i dont know what causes it (i didn't
investigate or file a real bug at the time).
as for finding ttf-gentium, thats a bug thats been filed in ubuntu+debian.
in the last few days an email went to debian-mentors asking for someone
to upload an updated package, but not sure if it fixes this bug.
kk
I've just checked and according to:
http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=Gentium
Gentium is released under the SIL Open Font License, which is fine according
to the FSF.
I don't know what the "Badly formed dpkg-status entry" means for emacs though?
I uninstalled emacs and the message went away, reinstalled and it came back
again.
somethign messed up there... bug report material.
link to changes.
http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito/debian/vrms_1.12_i386.changes
--
Karl Goetz
The buck stops there -> $
Australian Ubuntu users team - http://wiki.ubuntu.com/AustralianTeam