From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 (2022-12-14) on finch.gentoo.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.1 required=5.0 tests=DMARC_NONE,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=4.0.0 Received: from mail1.forefronthosting.com (mail1.forefronthosting.com [65.65.33.4]) by chiba.3jane.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1185AC526 for ; Thu, 18 Apr 2002 16:56:35 -0500 (CDT) Received: from volumehost.com ([10.0.0.9]) by mail1.forefronthosting.com (8.11.6/8.8.7) with ESMTP id g3ILxWq22935 for ; Thu, 18 Apr 2002 16:59:33 -0500 Message-ID: <3CBF417F.5020301@volumehost.com> Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 16:58:23 -0500 From: "Jared H. Hudson" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0rc1) Gecko/20020418 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] /usr/spool/mail versus maildir: use item needed References: <3CBDFD6A.9050600@volumehost.com> <874ri9415l.fsf@tea.thpoon.com> <3CBF2067.1020607@volumehost.com> <20020418210932.4FF15AC478@chiba.3jane.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org Errors-To: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.6 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Gentoo Linux developer list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: X-Archives-Salt: 67fbd26a-2f65-49d8-9f54-fd041e80516c X-Archives-Hash: cdf2caa3f64df14948301ed75bcbea6f >>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.