On Sun, 2012-01-15 at 01:19 -0500, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: > And I note that as a multi-boot/multi-Linux-distribution user That the > "alpine" packages found in at least some of the distro's repositories > appears to be compiled from re-alpine sources since If I understand it > right, the last official Uwash alpine version was 2.00 yet for example: > > ~ > UnderTree =-> pacman -Ss alpine > extra/re-alpine 2.02-3 [installed] > The continuation of the Alpine email client from University of Washington > ~ > UnderTree =-> > > Since I tend to stick with package manager installed software, I can't tell > you how pleased I was when I 1st noticed that some pacman -Syu had upgraded my > Arch installation's alpine beyond version 2.00... ;-) I don't understand why that much people are using MUAs without a GUI, anyway, a penfriend is blind, reading braille, a good reason to use a GUI free MUA. An Email I received yesterday was written with User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (DEB 1167 2008-08-23) Debian testing and unstable are at 2.02-3 too. I don't think that Alpin will be dropped by major distros. - Ralf
