[csw-maintainers] Packaged CSWmailx. How to obsolete CSWnail?

Sebastian Kayser skayser at opencsw.org
Thu May 21 23:26:34 CEST 2009


Philip Brown wrote:
> On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 06:35:28PM +0200, Sebastian Kayser wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> i packaged mailx that was formerly known as nail (CSWnail). Now how
>> would we go about obsoleting CSWnail? Just drop it from the catalog, let
>> CSWnail become an empty package that pulls in CSWmailx and somehow
>> deletes CSWnail, or is there another preferred (proven) way of doing
>> things like this?
> 
> 
> ugh. is the binary really called "mailx"? that would be very lame.
> I think it might actually be nice to keep it as called "nail" :-}

Yep, "nail has been integrated into the Heirloom project as mailx" [1]
and the binary is called mailx. I could add a symlink called nail that
points to mailx. Thoughts?

Sebastian

[1] http://heirloom.sourceforge.net/mailx.html



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