Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 10:07:02 -0500 (EST) From: "Pedro Giffuni S." <pedro@unb15.campus.unal.edu.co> To: Gary Palmer <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MH mail: part II (Final Reply) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960429094548.4811A-100000@unb15.campus.unal.edu.co> In-Reply-To: <Pine.A32.3.91.960429094204.26120D-100000@biblioteca.campus.unal.edu.co>
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> > The main reason I proposed it included is that it is a nonsense to > > install xmh to find out it won`t run unless you add the mh package. > > That is not something we have much control over. XMH is part of the > release from the X Consortium, and hence is in the XFree86 > release. Why it is there, I have no idea. > > > It is an option ... if you go to the package installation screen. By some reason that option doesn`t work when installing from a DOS or NFS mounted partition. I suspect it doesn`t work on the 2.1R CD either! Perhaps the archives` names were cut out? > > MH is in no way (that I know of) ``traditional UNIX'' ... ``mail'' > (found in /usr/bin on FreeBSD) is the ``traditional'' interface to the > mail system, not the Rand MH system. As for ``runs by default'', MH is > supplied PRE-COMPILED in the packages collection. What more could you > ask for? > The games distribution, for example, can`t be considered "traditional" UNIX either, and I wouldn`t consider it esential... SCO UNIX offers the option to install them in a separate user. Something similar occurs with MH, it is included as an option on AIX an several others. I don`t mean, at all, that it should come default on the kernel, I just mean it should have the same level as the games distribution., The port and packages are also included in the same CD, so I don`t see why its such a big deal! > That is not controversial, and the discussion about inclusion of > MH in the base system is at an end. It just won't happen. > I can accept that, I won`t discuss anymore... best regards, Pedro > Gary > -- > Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member > FreeBSD - Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info. > >
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