On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 2:30 PM, Bastien Dejean <eschyle@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Dwight Schauer a écrit : > >> > On 02/08/11 18:52, Bastien Dejean wrote: >> >> Why is there an official arch pkg for msmtp but not for mpop? >> Because something like fetchmail does the same thing as mpop? > > It seems there are plenty reasons to prefer mpop over fetchmail: > http://mpop.sourceforge.net/comparison.html To answer your initial question: the way it usually works is that a package is in the repos if a developer wants to maintain it. Otherwise, it might be in community if a TU wants to maintain it, or in AUR if someone else wants to. If you want to see mpop in the repo's I suggest putting it in AUR or voting for it if is already there. Cheers, Tom
