Subject: Re: [Maintainers] pine removed (fwd)

From: "Karl F. Larsen" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 14:00:55 -0600 (MDT)

Denis, if your so inflexible that you will not port pine to your 
linux using the existing Red Hat rpm packages, I will, with a lot 
of others not touch Mandrake. 

I have had a bad time with Mandrake in the past with claims of 
performance that were not met. Red Hat is not perfect but they 
are getting closer.  

On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Denis HAVLIK wrote:

> Hi, folks
> 
> Unless I can present a nice "shut up and leave the pine in the distro -
> the way you do it now is fine with us - of course you have to add
> patches to rpms - who told you this crap about us not wanting people to
> distribute pine rpms" type of answer to our dear developers, pine WILL be
> dropped from MandrakeLinux distribution.
> 
> In case this isn't clear, MandrakeLinux is the second most used
> Linux distro these days, and considering the fact that we attract much
> more "new users" than any other distribution, we are on the good way to
> become nr. 1.
> 
> I hope some human beeing from Washington.edu actually reads this list,
> and cares enough about seing pine included in a major linux distro
> to answer the question(s), or find someone who is able to answer them.
> 
> I really don't feel like changing to "mutt" after >10 years of
> using pine as my primary (and only) email client. :-(
> 
> thx
> 
> 	Denis
> PS: Suppose I'll be leaving this list in a while (sorry, but I'm
> overloaded as it is...), so please answer to "[email-masked]",
> and directly to me, rather than answering (only) to this list.
> 

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