Re: Suboptimal packaging, was:Where is ... text editor?

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On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 00:59, Marco Fioretti wrote:
> On Sun, 2002-10-13 at 22:56, John BouAntoun wrote:
> 
> > I really want a light weight curses text editor like pico. 
> > No problem, I thought, just install the rpm.
> > 
> > Then I went through all 3 cds and couldn't find the rpm for pico on
> > any of them.
> > 
> 
> and the answer was:
> [imoq@home imoq]$ rpm -q --whatprovides `which pico`
> pine-4.44-13
> 
> or, in other words, that to use a light text editor one must install a
> whole MUA even it will never be used, right? (For the record, I just
> discovered that it is the same on RH 7.3)
> 
> I will start to work on RH 8.0 package lists for the RULE project
> below soon. In this context, I'd like to know if people have already
> noticed other cases like this, where a finer partitioning of apps and
> libraries into more/differently structured RPMs would have helped
> users who need to cut down on disk usage for whatever reason.
> 
> If you want, you can even post the rpm names to me, and I'll summarize
> everything here later.

You might find that pico is bundled with pine due to their odd (and more
than a little nasty) licensing. There is an open source version of a
pico work-alike called "nano" that you might want to try instead if you
aren't interested in pine.

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