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Re: troubles compiling mailutils
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Jeff Bailey |
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Re: troubles compiling mailutils |
Date: |
Thu, 4 Apr 2002 18:13:55 -0800 |
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On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 08:27:14PM -0500, xystrus wrote:
> > Redhat 6.2 is about 2 years old, so is not a particularily good
> > base to work from. I strongly recommend Debian, since it's quite
> > easy to keep up to date.
> This is not a very good argument for the following reasons:
> The GNU project has, as its stated goal, the ability to replace
> proprietary Unix software on as many platforms as possible.
I refer you to http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards_27.html#SEC27
> Telling people to run debian in order to run your software is
> completely counter to the goals of the GNU project. You might as
> well be working for Compaq or Microsoft if you want people to only
> run your favorite platform.
While I go out of my way to make sure that my projects run on as many
platforms as possible, I don't go out of my way to help people on any
platform compile prerelease software from CVS.
Since he hadn't found the README-alpha file and had never encoutered a
project in CVS that required `autogen.sh', I felt it prudent to steer
him to the only distribution that has mailutils available for it.
Tks,
Jeff Bailey
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