Re: [gentoo-dev] /usr/spool/mail versus maildir: use item needed

[Thilo Bangert <bangert@gentoo.org>]

On Thursday, 18. April 2002 23:58, you wrote:
> >>use items:
> >>mbox and maildir
> >
> > what about the idea of just having one? (as they rarely will be
> > used at the same time anyway)
> >
> > hhm, i guess you can compile pine with support for both.. (?)
>
> What do you mean just having one? It makes sense to me for a user to
> put mbox or maildir in their USE items. Several programs, like pine,
> procmail, ect can handle both formats. And with patches more programs
> can handle both. So I think we need both use lines and have a user
> choose one, otherwise the default for that package will be chosen.
>

yes, you are right.

> I thought about the MAIL variable, and it would make sense, unless
> you were wanting to compile for another machine, hence a specifically
> defined MBOX_PATH or MAILDIR_PATH makes more sense, IMO.

i don't know the package that uses this, as i can not think of why this 
would be a compile time variable... 

IMHO this should only be a runtime variable, because of the fact, that 
(at least in some cases) it is up to the user to decide

so what package needs this?

>
> -Jared H.
>

-- 
regards
Thilo