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Re: questions about most



On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Andres Salomon wrote:

> Is most
> (ii  most           4.9.0-2        a more/less paging type program)
> being actively maintained?  The last changelog entry is from Oct 25th, '99.
> The reason i ask is that there's a wishlist bug (#53418) that addresses
> an annoyance i faced as well.. The fact that most is not registered w/ 
> update-alternatives as a pager when it is installed.  If this was a hard
> wishlist bug to fix, then maybe the 298 day age on it would be warranted, but
> this would be a simple couple of lines added to 
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/most.postinst.  Something similar to less's postinst:
> 
>         update-alternatives --quiet --install /usr/bin/pager pager \
>             /usr/bin/less 77 --slave /usr/share/man/man1/pager.1.gz \
>             pager.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/less.1.gz

Maybe because I didn't feel like most should be a pager?

I can't remember why at the time I thought this.

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