Re: Neomutt packages available
* Stephen Allen <marathon.durandal@gmail.com> [2016-06-24 11:28 -0400]:
> On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 09:37:35PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I am pleased to announce the availability of neomutt [0] packages for
> > Debian. Hints for installation you'll find at [1].
[...]
> > [0] http://www.neomutt.org/
> > [1] http://www.lxtec.de/debarchiv
> > [2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=825821
> > [3] https://github.com/neomutt/neomutt
>
> I was going to install it, then noticed your note that it will remove
> exiting mutt etc. packages. Why? I don't want that kind of behaviour,
> unless I'm missing something and they can't be on the same system
> together?
Neomutt is the same as pristine mutt but patched with features like
sidebar, notmuch, indexcolor etc. So you can either use neomutt or
the Debian mutt/mutt-patched. The executable binary is /usr/bin/mutt
in both cases. If you want to switch back to Debian mutt you have to
remove/purge neomutt-common first as the mutt package has no Replace
yet.
Your configuration can stay as it is, though. Maybe you want to
configure the neomutt features with some customized rc-files
documented in /usr/share/doc/neomutt-common/examples.
So there is nothing magic with neomutt at all......
Elimar
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