Re: [bug-mailutils] Mailutils 2.99.97 now(*) available in experimental

[Jordi Mallach]

On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 04:03:07PM +0300, Sergey Poznyakoff wrote:
> Exactly the same way as mailutils conflicts with any packet that
> installs mail[x] or readmsg or whatever. There are plenty of
> those.

Not exactly, as readmsg, mailx and so on are in most cases compatible or
at least do the same thing.

mu's mu and mailutils' mu are, as we say in Spanish, similar as an egg and
a chestnut. :)

> You can change name of any utility when configuring the package.  Here
> are the options that control it:
> 
> Program names:
>   --program-prefix=PREFIX      prepend PREFIX to installed program
>                                names
>   --program-suffix=SUFFIX      append SUFFIX to installed program names
>   --program-transform-name=PROGRAM   run sed PROGRAM on installed
>                                      program names

This won't do the magic in the documentation, for example.

I guess I'll make mailutils conflict with the other thing.

Thanks
Jordi
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