Pine (pico?)
I guess I will likely be beaten for asking - but ... Is there some significance as to there not being a pine package in the Debian distro? I did some looking and apparently it is lacking - not just for Sparc but for all platforms? OK, I am not a wuss I am learning vim and emacs better, but I just was wondering if maybe I am not looking correctly or if there is another reason that pine is missing? ??? -Bill- :] ---Sx-- Three virtues of programming: laziness, impatience, hubris Three virtues of community : diligence, patience, humility -- Larry Wall, Author of perl
Re: Pine (pico?)
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there some significance as to there not being a pine package in the Debian distro? I did some looking and apparently it is lacking - not just for Sparc but for all platforms? Pine and pico are not available for legal reasons. (redistribution of modified versions not allowed) OK, I am not a wuss I am learning vim and emacs better, but I just was wondering if maybe I am not looking correctly or if there is another reason that pine is missing? If you like pico, you should be happy with nano as an editor. (Nano drove me up a wall when it was installed as the default editor, had word-wrap enabled, and I needed to edit /etc/apt/sources.list .) Further discussion of alternatives should go on debian-user. Legal discussions should go on debian-legal. You can look up the discussion of pine in the archives of debian-legal. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html Text is a way we cheat time. -- Patrick Nielsen Hayden
Re: Pine (pico?)
The pine license is why's it's not in debian. However, if you have non-free deb sites in your sources.list, you can build the deb yourself - apt-get source pine On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, iudicium ferat wrote: I guess I will likely be beaten for asking - but ... Is there some significance as to there not being a pine package in the Debian distro? I did some looking and apparently it is lacking - not just for Sparc but for all platforms? OK, I am not a wuss I am learning vim and emacs better, but I just was wondering if maybe I am not looking correctly or if there is another reason that pine is missing? ??? -Bill- :] ---Sx-- Three virtues of programming: laziness, impatience, hubris Three virtues of community : diligence, patience, humility -- Larry Wall, Author of perl -- --)) --)) Mark T. Valites Unix Systems Analyst 1 College Circle - 124b1 South Hall SUNY Geneseo Geneseo, NY 14454 585-245-5577 585-259-3471 (Cell) 585-245-5579 (Fax)
