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Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi???
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Ken Hornstein |
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Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi??? |
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Sun, 11 Mar 2018 13:33:11 -0400 |
>Things always get weird as one's installed distribution gets crusty.
>My Fedora Core 27 installation recently started whining about conflicts
>between nmh and vi. Surprised me.
Is this a "conflict" (as in, you can't have both of the packages
installed at the same time) or a "requirement" (you need to have vi
installed to use nmh)? You say "conflict", but later on you imply
it's a dependency issue.
FWIW, the spec file we use as a template in nmh only has a BuildRequires
of flex and ncurses-devel, and no requirements for vi. We don't
necessarily have control over the dependencies used by various
distributions in their nmh packages.
As for the the editor ... we had a discussion about that a while ago,
and the consensus was ${VISUAL} -> ${EDITOR} -> vi.
http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/nmh-workers/2013-01/msg00099.html
Does that mean that it should be a dependency of the packaging system?
I'm unclear on that. I'm not really interested in requiring people to
have EDITOR/VISUAL set, so we have to fall back to SOMETHING, and I think
vi is a reasonable default.
--Ken
- [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi???, Jon Steinhart, 2018/03/11
- Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi???,
Ken Hornstein <=
- Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi???, Paul Fox, 2018/03/11
- Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi???, David Levine, 2018/03/11
- Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi???, David Levine, 2018/03/11
- Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi???, Ralph Corderoy, 2018/03/12
- Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi???, Paul Fox, 2018/03/12
- Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi???, Ralph Corderoy, 2018/03/12
- Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi???, Paul Fox, 2018/03/12
- Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi???, Ralph Corderoy, 2018/03/12
- Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi???, Paul Fox, 2018/03/13
- Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi???, Andy Bradford, 2018/03/14