I maintain slrn, which can run inews to post news. We apparently have three inews programs in debian; inewsinn puts it in /usr/bin/inews, while inews and cnews put it in /usr/lib/news/inews. My question is how is a program like slrn supposed to find an inews program to run? If it searches PATH it will only find inewsinn's inews. Of course the user can configure it (via inews_program in the rc file) to use any inews program, but this is an extra step to get working news posting. Would an alternative make sense for inews? -- see shy jo
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