Re: mailutils in stretch

2017-07-08 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2017-07-08 03:24 -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Fri, Jul 07, 2017 at 04:39:48PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: >> Argh, I am sorry. I meant to say just the opposite by leaving out the >> extra "not", In fact, various packages have been demoted from Priority >> standard or important to optional

Re: mailutils in stretch

2017-07-08 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Jul 07, 2017 at 04:39:48PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > Argh, I am sorry. I meant to say just the opposite by leaving out the > extra "not", In fact, various packages have been demoted from Priority > standard or important to optional in recent years. This includes the > venerable "ed"

Re: mailutils in stretch

2017-07-07 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2017-07-07 16:52 +0200, Erwan David wrote: > Le 07/07/17 à 16:39, Sven Joachim a écrit : >> In fact, various packages have been demoted from Priority >> standard or important to optional in recent years. This includes the >> venerable "ed" text editor for instance, and also any package

Re: mailutils in stretch

2017-07-07 Thread Erwan David
Le 07/07/17 à 16:39, Sven Joachim a écrit : > On 2017-07-07 05:19 -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > >> On Fri, Jul 07, 2017 at 09:41:33AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: >>> On 2017-07-07 02:06 -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: What was the reason for omitting mailutils (and, specifically, a

Re: mailutils in stretch

2017-07-07 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2017-07-07 05:19 -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Fri, Jul 07, 2017 at 09:41:33AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: >> On 2017-07-07 02:06 -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: >> > What was the reason for omitting mailutils (and, specifically, a >> > functional /usr/bin/mail binary) from the default strech

Re: mailutils in stretch

2017-07-07 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Jul 07, 2017 at 05:19:45AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Fri, Jul 07, 2017 at 09:41:33AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > > There are certainly reasons for that, and I don't think many people > > use /usr/bin/mail to send or read mail these days. Huh? I think plenty of locally written

Re: mailutils in stretch

2017-07-07 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Jul 07, 2017 at 09:41:33AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2017-07-07 02:06 -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > > What was the reason for omitting mailutils (and, specifically, a > > functional /usr/bin/mail binary) from the default strech install? > > For the record, mailutils have never been

Re: mailutils in stretch

2017-07-07 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2017-07-07 02:06 -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > What was the reason for omitting mailutils (and, specifically, a > functional /usr/bin/mail binary) from the default strech install? For the record, mailutils have never been part of a default install, but bsd-mailx (which also provides

mailutils in stretch

2017-07-07 Thread Dave Sherohman
What was the reason for omitting mailutils (and, specifically, a functional /usr/bin/mail binary) from the default strech install? That's kind of a standard thing to be there on *nix systems... (Yes, I've just spent the last couple days wondering why a couple new stretch servers I set up were