bug#26967: alpine: provide system-wide config

[Ricardo Wurmus]

ng0 <address@hidden> writes:

> Without this patch, alpine silently(?) complains until a
> $HOME/.pinerc exists:

How does it complain “silently”?  :)

> The way they are created is copied from slackware and seems to be
> the recommended way of providing them, as no such file exists in
> the distribution of alpine.

Recommended by whom?  I see in the manual [1] that

    $prefix/lib/pine.conf (Pine's global configuration file)
    $prefix/lib/pine.conf.fixed (Non-overridable global configuration file)

should exist, but it doesn’t say what should be in them.  Could they
just be empty?  Given that one of them is for non-overridable global
configurations I’d rather not fill them.

[1]: https://www.washington.edu/alpine/tech-notes/installation.html#files-unix

WDYT?

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Ricardo

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