No Pine, no tripwire.

jludwig wralphie at comcast.net
Mon Apr 12 15:22:19 UTC 2004


On Mon, 2004-04-12 at 11:04, Ben Steeves wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-04-12 at 12:55, info wrote:
> > I agree.
> > I don't like the fact that pine isn't included with FC1
> > However, I installed it no prob.
> > I don't care for mutt, so I installed pine.
> > I think pine should be included with FC
> 
> We've been on this merry-go-round before.  Pine's license is
> incompatible with Fedora's mandate.  
> 
> As you say, it's not hard to install if you want it.  Why needlessly
> encumber this already hefty distribution with even more duplicated
> packages?  I'm all for pulling some stuff *out* of Core instead.
> 
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In my /usr/bin I have almost 3000 files most bins or scripts. I would be
lucky to guess what task 10% (300) of them perform. How many of us could
name 100 programs we use? 
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jludwig <wralphie at comcast.net>





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