Re: Can metamail be disabled in elm?

[Carl V Streeter <streeter@cae.wisc.edu>]

Raul Miller writes:
> 
> How about, for the specific case of elm, putting out a package which
> requires gcc, etc. and from postinst invoke a program designed to
> configure for compilation which then spawns some processes to build
> and install the thing.

Ick.  I'd consider doing an elm-mime and elm-nomime that both provide elm and
conflict with each other.  One with mime, depending on metamail, one without.

That's really the only config needed.

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