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To: Satoshi Asami <asami@cs.berkeley.edu>
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Subject: Re: pine.conf
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Satoshi Asami wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> mail/pine4/pkg/PLIST is creating pine.conf using the following two lines:
> 
>   @exec %D/bin/pine -P %D/etc/pine.conf -conf >%D/etc/pine.conf.tmp
>   @exec /bin/mv %D/etc/pine.conf.tmp %D/etc/pine.conf
> 
> I'm not sure what the -P option of pine does

	It specifies a specific conf file to use, instead of the default. 

> but this raises the following questions:
> 
> (1) Does it preserve the user's existing pine.conf?  (I assume it
>     does, but just checking.)

	Yes. 

> (2) What would be an acceptable way of removing it on deinstallation?
>     Is there a way to determine whether the user modified it to be
>     something other than the "default" pine.conf?  (If it is modified,
>     it shouldn't be removed -- if it is not, then it can safely be
>     removed, since a new installation will regenerate it properly.)

	'pine -conf' will generate a default file for that version of pine on
stdout. You could diff the installed version against that to detect
changes. 

HTH,

Doug
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