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Re: [Nmh-workers] fmttest program - where to install it?
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Paul Fox |
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Re: [Nmh-workers] fmttest program - where to install it? |
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Tue, 20 Nov 2012 09:47:55 -0500 |
ralph wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> > Ralph wrote:
> > > Is there a distro that puts nmh in /usr/bin and not /usr/bin/nmh?
> >
> > Fedora puts the main commands in /usr/bin/. And as Joel noted, the
> > ancilliary commands in /usr/libexec/.
>
> Thanks. So I think ap/dp/... should stay out of PATH by not being
> prompted to /usr/bin or, if they must, have a more-specific, longer,
> name there, but keep a presence in the old non-PATH location for legacy
> uses that had to state their location. Even `dateparse' isn't great
> since dp is fairly specific to nmh's needs; nmh-dp? There's a track
> record of /usr/bin/*-* existing, e.g. Debian.
indeed -- if mh were being packaged today, we'd probably have just a
single front-end command: "mh comp", "mh inc", "mh refile", etc.
(to be clear: i'm not proposing anything of the sort.)
paul
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paul fox, address@hidden (arlington, ma, where it's 34.2 degrees)
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