Re: inews path question
Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> wrote:
> 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.
Actually inewsinn puts it in /usr/lib/news/bin/, /usr/bin/inews is
just a symlink, but that does not help you.
> 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?
Afaik the basic mode of operation and options are compatibel,
inews even diverts the inews from cnews. Using alternatives sounds
nice.
cu andreas
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