On 6/20/17 11:54, Erik Huelsmann wrote:
Hi Mark,
On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 9:11 AM, Mark Evenson evenson@panix.com wrote:
On 6/18/17 15:38, Erik Huelsmann wrote: […]
I've removed quite a few packages indeed (from the current production system, that is): all packages related to the X11 (server) have been removed. So have most LaTeX and LuaTeX packages. The idea behind this
step
is that the access provided by Common-Lisp.net is merely provided to support uploading and maintaining the static html pages -- my assumption
is
that that has little relationship to being able to start a desktop environment or graphics environment.
If you miss packages that you depend on, don't hesitate to speak up.
Please
explain what you need them for and I'll make them available again.
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I appreciate the effort to get to Debian Stretch, but common-lisp.net also functions as a shell host
Indeed I have noticed some very-long running sessions on your account in the past. Looking at the page which lists services to our projects ( https://common-lisp.net/project-intro/), I think your use of the host is unsupported (as in: I can't find it as a listed service). We currently use shell sessions to run lisppaste and cliki, but I think that with the introduction of `systemd`, we can probably move those to be run as "user services" instead. Based on that, I was expecting the system not to have long-running shell sessions anymore.
Well, I need a shell host to perform tasks for common-lisp.net maintainence. As such, I install tools I can't get from Debian in file://common-lisp.net/usr/home/mevenson/local/. screen I know, so please retain.
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Can I ask in what way the shell sessions you use need to be a generic service to support the common lisp community (and what role does GCC play in it)?
Maintaining support via IRC channels, and being able to answer the occacsional support request in the same Emacs.
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