[WBEL-users] Love the product...
William Hooper
whooperhsd2@earthlink.net
Tue, 16 Mar 2004 18:15:26 -0500 (EST)
Ed said:
[snip]
>> I do have one beef.... why does the distro not include PINE. While I
>> don't
>> use pine that often for e-mail (mainly for testing e-mail), I love pico.
>> It's very easy to use and has menus. Every RH distro I've used since
>> 5.2
>> has included Pine. Why would WBEL not include it?
>
> IIRC, UW Pine is not at all open source software, and no-one has
> bothered to re-write it. There is a GPL'd pico clone named nano, though.
This is why neither RHEL 3 (and by extension WBEL) or Fedora Core include
pine.
I believe people have had luck rebuilding M Harris' SRPM for WBEL.
ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris/pine
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William Hooper