Re: The direction linux is taking

Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2001-12-29T23:42:28Z

Em Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 05:33:57PM -0600, Oliver Xymoron escreveu:
> On Sun, 30 Dec 2001, Dave Jones wrote:
> > On Sat, 29 Dec 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > > The 'kill trailing spaces on each line' bug ? That has been fixed since
> > > > 4.31 or so. Or are there other evils lurking ?
> > > Thats the beast. Last time I looked it was fixed in some vendor trees
> >
> > Ah, explains why I've not seen it happen for a while.
> >
> > > but the official pine people were refusing to take it
>
> The vendors shouldn't even have their own trees according to the license.

heh, this is getting way off-topic, but last time I checked one can ship
pine with patches if the resulting package has an 'l' at the end, e.g.
pine-4.31L.i386.rpm

> > *sigh*
> > Another reason to be a mutt advocate I suppose 8)
>
> Don't kid yourself, Mutt's a pile of crap too. And not an alternative for
> 99% of Pine users.

Hey, I'm one of the 1% then, switched from pine one year ago and I'm happy
with mutt.

- Arnaldo