Re: [arch-dev-public] request: remove mailx from Core

On Jan 8, 2008 11:47 AM, Eric Belanger wrote:

Once logrotate won't depends on mailx anymore, no other packages in the repo (core and extra) will require mailx. Can we simply remove it completely from the repo? Or is it one of these packages that we want to keep in the repo? As I have adopted mailx because it was an orphaned core package, is there anyone who are more interest than me in maintaining this package?

I *think* it's optional in a few other distros. I don't see why it needs to be part of the base system. Additionally, heirloom mailx is supposed to be better (there's a bug report on it) I will maintain it if you don't want it. It's one of those apps that I would use if I had to, but don't use otherwise.