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slais-sysweb
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 Posted: Tue Apr 20, 2004 7:19 pm Post subject: /usr/share/state |
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I am bootstraping yet another Gentoo box this evening and the name of a cople of installed files caught my eye as they flashed by at 800Mhz. So I've just taken a look on another Gentoo box and it is what I thought:
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sysweb@codd:sysweb $ ls -l /usr/share/state
total 56
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 45018 Oct 2 2003 us-constitution
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9331 Oct 2 2003 us-declaration
sysweb@codd:sysweb $ less /usr/share/state/us-declaration
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The Declaration of Independence of the Thirteen Colonies
In CONGRESS, July 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,
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Now I have two questions:
a. Just what is this doing here, is it a dependency (or even a colony). This is being installed during stage 1 (bootstrap) - why?
b. I don't have another distribution to hand, is this only in Gentoo?
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pianosaurus
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| Posted: Tue Apr 20, 2004 9:10 pm Post subject: |
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What the....
What are THOSE doing there! I never saw them before....
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Lifl
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| Posted: Tue Apr 20, 2004 9:22 pm Post subject: |
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Good to know that they are there. Well, in case I should ever need them...
Seriously, why are they installed? |
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| Posted: Tue Apr 20, 2004 9:26 pm Post subject: |
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| Lifl wrote: | | Seriously, why are they installed? |
In case you live in the US and want to declare your independence. That way, you know what rights you have, and you have a template for your declaration.
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dmouritsendk
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| Posted: Tue Apr 20, 2004 9:26 pm Post subject: |
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is some dev getting patriotic on us here?  |
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ciaranm
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| Posted: Tue Apr 20, 2004 9:30 pm Post subject: |
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ciaranm@snowdrop ciaranm 0 0.25 $ equery belongs /usr/share/state
Searching for file '/usr/share/state' in *...
sys-apps/miscfiles-1.3-r1 (/usr/share/state/us-constitution)
sys-apps/miscfiles-1.3-r1 (/usr/share/state/us-declaration)
sys-apps/miscfiles-1.3-r1 (/usr/share/state)
ciaranm@snowdrop ciaranm 0 1.02 $ ewho miscfiles
metadata.xml says:
herd: base-system
CVS log says:
miscfiles-1.2-r1.ebuild: azarah
miscfiles-1.3.ebuild: seemant
miscfiles-1.3-r1.ebuild: seemant
miscfiles-1.3-r2.ebuild: seemant
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slais-sysweb
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uglyb0b
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| Posted: Tue Apr 20, 2004 10:21 pm Post subject: |
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Whoa, if I'm ever feeling very patriotic, I can read the constitution.
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Roguelazer
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| Posted: Tue Apr 20, 2004 10:29 pm Post subject: |
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How come the others are in /usr/share/misc?
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Lifl
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| Posted: Wed Apr 21, 2004 12:25 pm Post subject: |
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| PingPong wrote: |
In case you live in the US and want to declare your independence. That way, you know what rights you have, and you have a template for your declaration. |
But I live in Germany, I don't need stuff like that  |
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Bastux
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| Posted: Wed Apr 21, 2004 12:30 pm Post subject: |
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| is it a package or is it installed via the stages? |
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| Posted: Fri May 14, 2004 12:49 pm Post subject: |
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it's part of GNU miscfiles so will be included with any distribution. i'm not sure why those files are included, but looking at the list, it all seems pretty pointless to me 
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slais-sysweb
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| Posted: Fri May 14, 2004 1:31 pm Post subject: |
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So not a dependency, no longer a colony, and not en fracaise so it can't be a DOM; I think I might nuke it.
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PovMan
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| Posted: Fri May 14, 2004 1:53 pm Post subject: |
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heh i just looked in /usr/share/misc... what a random bunch of stuff
What other stuff do most people not know about?
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ciaranm
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| Posted: Fri May 14, 2004 2:33 pm Post subject: |
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| PovMan wrote: | | What other stuff do most people not know about? |
From the looks of a lot of the questions posted on the forums, it seems /usr/share/man and /usr/share/doc are pretty well kept secrets too... |
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Ari Rahikkala
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| Posted: Fri May 14, 2004 5:24 pm Post subject: |
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Heh. I was just looking at /usr/share/msic/GNU-manifesto...
| Quote: | So far we have an Emacs text editor with Lisp for writing editor
commands, a source level debugger, a yacc-compatible parser generator,
a linker, and around 35 utilities. A shell (command interpreter) is
nearly completed. A new portable optimizing C compiler has compiled
itself and may be released this year. An initial kernel exists but
many more features are needed to emulate Unix. When the kernel and
compiler are finished, it will be possible to distribute a GNU system
suitable for program development. We will use TeX as our text
formatter, but an nroff is being worked on. We will use the free,
portable X window system as well. After this we will add a portable
Common Lisp, an Empire game, a spreadsheet, and hundreds of other
things, plus on-line documentation. We hope to supply, eventually,
everything useful that normally comes with a Unix system, and more. |
I was halfway through reading that paragraph when I noticed it wasn't about features in emacs anymore.
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nephros
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| Posted: Sat May 15, 2004 6:48 pm Post subject: |
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Deja-vu, deja-vu, deja-vu!
my post: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=41375
the original non-dupe: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=15437
Oh, and judging from the users of this package miscfiles: | Code: |
nephros@scourge nephros $ qpkg -q -I miscfiles
sys-apps/miscfiles-1.3-r1 *
DEPENDED ON BY:
passook-1.0.0
ispell-3.2.06-r6
cracklib-2.7-r9
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it seems the purpose of those files is to be used to train spellcheckers and seed password-crackers with wordlists.
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