On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 06:02:43PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > * Stephen Allen <marathon.duran...@gmail.com> [2016-06-24 11:28 -0400]: > > I was going to install it, then noticed your note that it will remove > > exiting mutt etc. packages. Why? I don't want that kind of behaviour, > > unless I'm missing something and they can't be on the same system > > together? > > Neomutt is the same as pristine mutt but patched with features like > sidebar, notmuch, indexcolor etc. So you can either use neomutt or > the Debian mutt/mutt-patched. The executable binary is /usr/bin/mutt > in both cases. If you want to switch back to Debian mutt you have to > remove/purge neomutt-common first as the mutt package has no Replace > yet. > > Your configuration can stay as it is, though. Maybe you want to > configure the neomutt features with some customized rc-files > documented in /usr/share/doc/neomutt-common/examples. > > So there is nothing magic with neomutt at all......
Except it has many patches installed that the mutt maintainers didn't wish to add, for whatever reasons. I get it, thanks. I'll wait until it has 'replace' and is in Debian. I was following the discussion on develop previously and in that post someone mentioned the package was ready for Download, and I had scratched my head trying to find your link. Then I saw this post in 'user'. :-)
