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

["Jared H. Hudson" <jhhudso@volumehost.com>]

>>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.

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.

-Jared H.