Because pico is a separate subprogram in Pine, an email program that Debian doesn't support in binary form because of licensing considerations. Pine is available in non-free as a source package, along with pilot and pico in the same package, so you'll have to download the -diffs, -src, and .dsc files and run dpkg-dev on them and then run debian/rules binary to make a debianized binary, or simply get a tarball and make your own binary and avoid the moronic situation altogether (rather curious that Debian is the only distro with legal probs in this area, no?)
On Thu, 6 May 1999, Fu-Dong Chiou wrote: > Hi all, > > I was wondering if anyone can tell me why I cannot find a simple editor > pico on my Debian 2.1r2 packages. Thanks a lot! > > Best wishes, > Chip > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > Given my druthers, I'd druther not. John Galt ([EMAIL PROTECTED])