Re: Pine...again
On Sun, 24 May 1998, Will Lowe wrote:
> On Sun, 24 May 1998, Christopher Jason Morrone wrote:
>
> > Could we just have a package that includes the pine-bin.linux pre-compiled
> > binary from the washington site, and distribute that? Or do we consider
> > this a "derivative" work as well?
> Um, well, that depends partially on whether or not that precompiled
> binary is libc6, and whether it keeps it's files in the right locations,
> etc....
>
> Maybe this is already the case, but wouldn't it make sense for the
> pine-whatever.deb to just include the source and a preinst script that
> actually ran the build, and the installed the resulting binary?
Well, yes. But can we do that? Is anyone currently working on it?
I remeber that there was opposition to make a pine-src .deb
file. And I agree, .deb's are for preconfigured executables.
It just seems like there must be some way that we can get pine...
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