Re: Commands and Utilities Proposal, 0.2
(trimmed lsb-spec)
Daniel Quinlan <quinlan@transmeta.com> writes:
> Jakob 'sparky' Kaivo <jkaivo@elijah.nodomainname.net> writes:
>
> > mail, mailx
>
> Do we really want applications relying on mail or mailx? Isn't it
> better practice to use the local copy of /usr/sbin/sendmail?
Yes, it is better practice to use sendmail. But, there are a large
number of existing scripts and programs that rely on /bin/mail (and a
good number of those rely on /bin/mail acting like mailx). We need to
accomodate those. Also, UNIX98 mandates mailx and their is no real
compelling reason not to.
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Jakob 'sparky' Kaivo - jkaivo@ndn.net - http://jakob.kaivo.net/
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