On Sat, 10 Mar 2007, Piotr Engelking wrote:

> Santiago Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Sat, 10 Mar 2007, Piotr Engelking wrote:
> > > As alpine is a drop-in replacement for pine, please make 'pine' an alias
> > for
> > > alpine (through the alternatives system, preferably).
> > 
> > alpine is not a drop-in replacement for pine yet. It does not have
> > maildir support, for example, so I don't think this would be a good idea.
> > pine is pine, and alpine is alpine.
> 
> That's why I suggested using the alternatives system. The priority of
> the alternative provided by the real pine should be, of course, higher
> than the priority of the one provided by alpine, at least until the
> problems you mention are resolved.

Even if we use alternatives, I think it's too soon for that.

It would add a little bit of confusion, and I don't like the idea of
people submitting bugs against pine for things which are really bugs
in alpine.


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