On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 19:20 +0400, Dmitry Butskoy wrote: > Dmitry Butskoy wrote: > > seth vidal wrote: > >> > >> Does the cli format break compat with mailx as we know it now? Ie: will > >> we need to fix an arse-load of cron jobs and what not to behave? > >> > > > > There is an upstream's recommendation to use in scripts (including > > cron jobs) as "MAILRC=/dev/null mailx", whereas now it is jist "mail". > > I don't know whether it is for corner cases or it is an actual issue. > > Perhaps we should look how Suse and Slackware package this (btw, Suse > > had switched for a long time). > > BTW, the current "mail" already reads ~/.mailrc and, depending on "-n", > /etc/mail.rc . Mailx-12.x will do the same (it explains why Suse does > not use any wrappers etc.). IOW, nothing worse. > If it acts the same then I don't see a good reason not to upgrade it. Though I will say - maybe do this as an F10 thing and let f8,F9 keep the older one? -sv -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
