On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 23:44:13 +1000, Allan McRae <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I was looking at the mailx package and was wondering what we should > do with it. > > We grab the package source for "mailx-8.1.1-fixed" on > ftp.archlinux.org... but I have no idea what is "fixed" about it and > we still patch the Makefile and for gcc-4. It also does not use our > CFLAGS/LDFLAGS when building. > > There are options here: > > 1) grab "updated" cvs snapshot from OpenBSD, which is apparently > where Debian gets it from. I'm not sure where exactly the cvs repo is > though... > > 2) use heirloom-mailx (a.k.a. nail). At least I can find a tarball > from that, even if it has not seen a release in a couple of years. > This was requested in the bug tracker but was closed dues to no-one > being motivated to change it after several years. > > 3) use GNU mailutils. It looks actively developed (had a release in > September), and is apparently fully compatible. However, it also has > more features and so is not as lightweight... probably going from > 100KB to 1MB. > > Opinions? > > Allan
I'd say go with the simplest solution. I also wouldn't care about 900KB more disk usage these days. So if the gnu mailutils just compile without any patches that might be a good replacement. Pierre PS: I have to admit I usually don't use the mail command anyway. :-) -- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre
