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Hi On Mon, 2 Jun 2008, John Andersen wrote:
On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 12:29 PM, Richard Ibbotson <richard.ibbotson@gmail.com> wrote:
Alpine compiled from source. It's a long term habit I developed through using the old broken version of Pine with SuSE software. I prefer to compile from source anyway.
Unless you READ the source, checking it for bugs, what does this buy you other than lots of headaches and disk thrashing?
No headaches. No disk thrashing. Works fine for me :)
It would be one thing if the SuSE rpms were hopelessly out of date, but you didn't claim that.
Well, I don't know about out of date. I've had so many problems with Pine used with Debian, Ubuntu/Kubuntu and SuSE/OpenSuSE and RedHat/Fedora over the years that I find that if I just stick with the source it works for me. Yes, Alpine is much better and not broken. But, at least I get the same result every time I install it. Previous attempts using a package for a certain distribution always resulted in the mail folder not being found at /home/user/mail which is where my mail folder is. Attempts to tell Pine where the mail folder is always failed. Alpine has already done that to me once. -- Richard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org