On Friday 19 of November 2010 21:44:13 Allan McRae 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. > Personally I'd like the actively developed mailutils the best. Btw, thank you Allan for doing the [core] rebuild, i've read the thread and feels good to me that someone rebuilds the old packages with new tools. Mark > Opinions? > > Allan -- Marek Otahal :o)
