Fedora 1 and Pine

[Tom 'Needs A Hat' Mitchell]

On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 12:13:16PM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:

> Subject: Re: Fedora 1 and Pine
> 
> On Sat, May 01, 2004 at 11:50:28PM -0700, Tom 'Needs A Hat' Mitchell wrote:
> > There have been some good bug fixes to pine since RH9.  Remove the old
> > RH9 version (rpm -e) and then install dag's package (rpm -U).  Better
> > yet pick up the source tar ball from Univ of Washington and compile it
> > yourself.
> 
> Why "better yet"? Dag's version is the latest code, and it's all nicely
> done.

Fair question.

As packages go pine is harder to build than helloworld and vastly
easier than apache, emacs, perl, the kernel, or the X window system.

>From time to time, in this brave new world of open source there is
value in working from source.  The pine package is as good a non trivial
package as there is.

I do agree, RPM packages are good when nicely done.  This is  why I
repeated the previous hint to use dag's package and did not go into
serious detail on the build your own path.



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