Julien Cristau <jcris...@debian.org> writes: > On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 12:31:59 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> I propose the following addition. Seconds or objections? (As >> mentioned elsewhere in the file, the * indicates that the providing >> packages are using alternatives, which appears to be the case.) > Is there a spec somewhere about the command line arguments for mailx? I > know that bsd-mailx and heirloom-mailx do completely different things > for -a, e.g., which is a major pain, and I'm not sure they should be > alternatives. mailx is specified by POSIX. POSIX does indeed not specify the -a flag. (Out of curiosity, if one needs the -a flag to mailx, why not just call sendmail directly and pass in exactly the headers one wants?) -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87y6c3a9fk....@windlord.stanford.edu
