While the pine license is evil, true. I have a suggestion for the way pine packages are currently made. The process of installing pine currently is, apt-get install pine396-src apt-get install pine396-diffs cd /usr/src/pine read the README dpkg-source -x pine*dsc cd pine*;debian/rules binary see warning, press enter, watch it build cd ..;dpkg -i *.deb Now, why not have a package just called "pine" that would: pre-depend on devscripts, a c compiler, and whatever else is necessary to build pine. And of course on the pine packages themselves. Suggest pine-docs. With the end result of all this being that a user could type apt-get install pine have everything needed be downloaded, built, and installed. With the only interaction being seeing the warning and pressing enter. The average user would then not have to worry about licensing issues in such hairy situations, and be able to use such packages like any others. -- Rafael Kitover rkitover@io.com
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