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[nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi???
From: |
Jon Steinhart |
Subject: |
[nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi??? |
Date: |
Sun, 11 Mar 2018 10:08:21 -0700 |
Things always get weird as one's installed distribution gets crusty.
My Fedora Core 27 installation recently started whining about conflicts
between nmh and vi. Surprised me.
I don't know if anybody has given any thought as to what should be a
dependency and what shouldn't. Seems to me that dependencies should
be things necessary to build, install, and run (libraries) a program.
Not other companion programs on the system. I think that a run-time
error message of the form "No editor defined. Set EDITOR or VISUAL
in your environment , or Editor in your .mh_profile" is a better way
to go.
Of course, I could be completely off base here if vi is actually used
as part of the build process. But that would seem weird to me too.
Jon
- [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi???,
Jon Steinhart <=
- Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi???, Ken Hornstein, 2018/03/11
- Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi???, Paul Fox, 2018/03/11
- Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi???, David Levine, 2018/03/11
- Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi???, David Levine, 2018/03/11
- Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi???, Ralph Corderoy, 2018/03/12
- Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi???, Paul Fox, 2018/03/12
- Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi???, Ralph Corderoy, 2018/03/12
- Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi???, Paul Fox, 2018/03/12
- Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi???, Ralph Corderoy, 2018/03/12
- Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi???, Paul Fox, 2018/03/13