[gentoo-dev] Mailers, Mailers, Mailers!!!

[Jerry A!]

Everyone, please give massive props out to Grant Goodyear for getting
nail into the tree and Jeffrey Bester for giving me a base mailx port to
work with.

I updated Jeffrey's work (but he should still get the credit for getting
the ball rolling on mailx) to 8.1.1.

Found out that Debian sorta supports this now (8.1.1 is actually
NetBSD's /usr/bin/mail, the upcoming 8.1.2 is OpenBSD's).

So, it works as expected.  It also requires liblockfile to be installed.
I went ahead and created a portage for that.

However, I do differ in opinion from Grant.  I would prefer that
anything that is /usr/bin/mail works as expected, and that in the
Greater UNIX Picture sorta means using /usr/{lib,sbin}/sendmail.  I
think it's a bad thing to create some changes that go against user
expectations.

So, mailx has "RDEPEND=virtual/mta".  It needs it, so that's not
negotiable.  However, I would like our packages to be consistent.  Thus,
if there are no objections, I would also like nail to
"RDEPEND=virtual/mta".

But before I go off making any changes, I'd like opinions.  So please
tell us what you want.

Without further ado, I'm attaching the ebuilds for liblockfile and mailx
to this message.  If I don't hear any complaints, I'll commit them when
I get home from work.

Toodles.  8)

        --Jerry

name:  Jerry Alexandratos         ||  Open-Source software isn't a
phone: [phone]               ||  matter of life or death...
email: jerry@×××××××.org          ||  ...It's much more important
                                  ||  than that!