Re: [RFC] alpine - Friendly text-based email client (Bug #401001)
On Tue December 5 2006 15:16, Asheesh Laroia wrote:
> I'm working on packaging the Alpine mail client, an Apache License
> 2.0 release of the popular PINE mail and news reader. I'm very happy
> to see this great (both powerful and friendly) MUA be Free.
>
> Upstream bundles an editor called PICO, originally the PIne COmposer.
> I wanted to ask for comments on the way I handled making two binary
> packages: basically I do "make install" with CURDIR set to alpine,
> and I just "mv" the pico binary and man page out into the CURDIR for
> alpine-pico. The "pico" binary and man page are separated because
> "nano" also has a pico man page and binary; that way, only
> alpine-pico conflicts with nano.
I don't think alpine-pico should conflict with nano, nano needs to stop
Conflicting with, Replacing, and shipping "pico" stuff. There may be a
role where nano provides an Alternative to pico.
- Bruce
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