On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 08:52:50PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > I maintain slrn, which can run inews to post news. We apparently have > three inews programs in debian; inewsinn puts it in /usr/bin/inews, > while inews and cnews put it in /usr/lib/news/inews. My question is how > is a program like slrn supposed to find an inews program to run? If it > searches PATH it will only find inewsinn's inews. Of course the user can > configure it (via inews_program in the rc file) to use any inews > program, but this is an extra step to get working news posting. Would an > alternative make sense for inews?
I guess it would. I notice that "strings /usr/bin/tin" says tin has /usr/bin/inews hardcoded. I wonder if this would complicate the inews/cnews situation. Currently, inews depends on cnews and diverts cnews's inews binary, using the assumption that it's a superset of cnews's and that you wouldn't want to use the other if you installed the inews package. On a related note, if anybody wants to take over nntp/cnews/inews, please be my guest. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
