Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi???

On 11 March 2018 at 14:19, David Levine wrote: > Jon wrote: > > > Things always get weird as one's installed distribution gets crusty. > > My Fedora Core 27 installation recently started whining about conflicts > > between nmh and vi. Surprised me. > > Here's why: > > 1)

Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi???

Kevin wrote: > For what it's worth, Fedora 26 has the same issue as 27. The issue was fixed for Fedora 26 (and Fedora 28 and EL6 and EPEL 7). The Fedora 26 package was moved to stable 2 hours ago, so should soon be available as an update:

Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi???

Hi Jon, > Things always get weird as one's installed distribution gets crusty. > My Fedora Core 27 installation What is Fedora Core 27? :-) Fedora 26 is the latest version, so 27 might be Fedora Devel, but then you said it's crusty as if the 27 is a typo for something older, but they stopped

[nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi???

Things always get weird as one's installed distribution gets crusty. My Fedora Core 27 installation recently started whining about conflicts between nmh and vi. Surprised me. I don't know if anybody has given any thought as to what should be a dependency and what shouldn't. Seems to me that

Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi???

>Things always get weird as one's installed distribution gets crusty. >My Fedora Core 27 installation recently started whining about conflicts >between nmh and vi. Surprised me. Is this a "conflict" (as in, you can't have both of the packages installed at the same time) or a "requirement" (you

Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi???

Here's the Fedora bug report: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1551126 The initial report included this: Additional info: I guess that shows how few people still use nmh ;^) David -- nmh-workers https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers

Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi???

ken wrote: > >Things always get weird as one's installed distribution gets crusty. > >My Fedora Core 27 installation recently started whining about conflicts > >between nmh and vi. Surprised me. > > Is this a "conflict" (as in, you can't have both of the packages > installed at the same

Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi???

Paul F wrote: > I don't think anyone participating was suggesting that there be a > hard dependency on vi. The decision on Fedora was made prior to that discussion. (And, it was made on Fedora, not by nmh.) > (I think under > debian/ubuntu, the vi dependency would be a "suggested"

Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi???

Ken Hornstein writes: > >Things always get weird as one's installed distribution gets crusty. > >My Fedora Core 27 installation recently started whining about conflicts > >between nmh and vi. Surprised me. > > Is this a "conflict" (as in, you can't have both of the packages > installed at the

Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi???

Jon wrote: > Things always get weird as one's installed distribution gets crusty. > My Fedora Core 27 installation recently started whining about conflicts > between nmh and vi. Surprised me. Here's why: 1) nmh depended on /bin/vi 2) vim-minimal recently changed what it provides from /bin/vi