Re: Pico.

[John Galt <galt@inconnu.isu.edu>]

Because pico is a separate subprogram in Pine, an email program that
Debian doesn't support in binary form because of licensing considerations.
Pine is available in non-free as a source package, along with pilot and
pico in the same package, so you'll have to download the -diffs, -src,
and .dsc files and run dpkg-dev on them and then run debian/rules binary
to make a debianized binary, or simply get a tarball and make your own
binary and avoid the moronic situation altogether (rather curious that
Debian is the only distro with legal probs in this area, no?)


On Thu, 6 May 1999, Fu-Dong Chiou wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I was wondering if anyone can tell me why I cannot find a simple editor 
> pico on my Debian 2.1r2 packages.  Thanks a lot!
> 
> Best wishes,
> Chip 
> 
> 
> 
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Given my druthers, I'd druther not.

John Galt (galt@inconnu.isu.edu)