Bug#488214: make mailx a registered virtual package name
Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> writes:
> On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 12:31:59 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> I propose the following addition. Seconds or objections? (As
>> mentioned elsewhere in the file, the * indicates that the providing
>> packages are using alternatives, which appears to be the case.)
> Is there a spec somewhere about the command line arguments for mailx? I
> know that bsd-mailx and heirloom-mailx do completely different things
> for -a, e.g., which is a major pain, and I'm not sure they should be
> alternatives.
mailx is specified by POSIX. POSIX does indeed not specify the -a flag.
(Out of curiosity, if one needs the -a flag to mailx, why not just call
sendmail directly and pass in exactly the headers one wants?)
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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