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From: Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New package neomutt
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2017 12:16:24
Message-Id: 20170810121613.GX1321@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] New package neomutt by Marc Schiffbauer
1 On 10-08-2017 14:13:29 +0200, Marc Schiffbauer wrote:
2 > * Nicolas Bock schrieb am 10.08.17 um 11:35 Uhr:
3 > > It does of course. What's appropriate here depends on whether we
4 > > think somebody might want to have both mutt and neomutt installed
5 > > at the same time. If we don't allow this use case, we don't have
6 > > to worry about eselect and the neomutt binary will be called
7 > > 'mutt' (as it is called by upstream already). If we do allow this
8 > > use case, being able to eselect makes sense because then the
9 > > binary is still always called 'mutt'.
10 >
11 > Why not just have mutt and/or neomutt for both packages? Whoever only
12 > wants neomutt and run it with 'mutt' can "alias mutt=neomutt" and be
13 > done.
14
15 Both packages install /usr/bin/mutt by upstream's default (because
16 neomutt is supposed to be a drop-in replacement of mutt).
17
18 Thanks,
19 Fabian
20
21 --
22 Fabian Groffen
23 Gentoo on a different level

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