On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 01:28:55PM +0100, Michael Meskes wrote: > From a short look mailutils from seems to be superior in all regards over > bsdmainutils from. Therefore I'd suggest removing from from bsdmainutils. Any > objections? After all bsdmainutils is there for bsd tools "that have not > (yet) been re-written by FSF as GNU. As programs found here become available > from GNU sources, they will be replaced."
Ah, I didn't know that was the main goal of the package. However, the dependency list for Mailutils is, in the current implementation, very fat. It depends on python, libmysqlclient, crypto stuff (for remote mbox access), guile, etc. Until mailutils learns to provide some of this functionality via optional plugins, having a lighter implementation in Debian might not be a bad idea. We can, however, favour GNU's implementation in the case both will co-exist in the system, given the deps are already installed and it provides more features. > [email protected] VfL Borussia! Forca Barca! Go SF 49ers! Use: Debian Força Barça! ;) -- Jordi Mallach Pérez -- Debian developer http://www.debian.org/ [email protected] [email protected] http://www.sindominio.net/ GnuPG public key information available at http://oskuro.net/
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