Bug#252082: closed by Pierre HABOUZIT <madcoder@debian.org> (Re: kmail: program "lockfile" doesn't exist when requesting FCNTL mail locking)
On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 12:13:30AM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote:
> please stop.
when you understand and acknowledge that there is a problem
beyond _your_ experience that you are unsuited to dealing with.
> I use kmail for IMAP only, and don't have procmail on my
> machine.
if that is an excuse, don't be the maintainer of kmail.
> it just works, and do so for every one that uses POP or IMAP
> only. that's maybe 90% of what people (under unix or windows or ...)
> use. that makes perfectly sense.
not for an selinux system it doesn't, where permission is not granted
to write any .lck files and you have to give "special" permission to do
it.
which is why i tried a different locking mechanism.
and when no warning or advice explaining why it failed was given
(which is the reason why i am raising this bug) i raised this bug.
do you understand this simple point?
> "standard" users are supposed to use aptitude, deyti, dselect, ... and
> for them that just works. user that uses apt-get directly are
> experimented users, that are expected to know more about debian. if you
> want less surprises, use aptitude, or force the installation of
> recommends manually.
i repeat: how am i supposed to know that.
guess?
> there is no policy-based reasons behind that, all is explained in the
> *USER DOCUMENTATION*,
i repeat: nobody ever reads that.
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