On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 00:59, Marco Fioretti wrote: > On Sun, 2002-10-13 at 22:56, John BouAntoun wrote: > > > I really want a light weight curses text editor like pico. > > No problem, I thought, just install the rpm. > > > > Then I went through all 3 cds and couldn't find the rpm for pico on > > any of them. > > > > and the answer was: > [imoq@home imoq]$ rpm -q --whatprovides `which pico` > pine-4.44-13 > > or, in other words, that to use a light text editor one must install a > whole MUA even it will never be used, right? (For the record, I just > discovered that it is the same on RH 7.3) > > I will start to work on RH 8.0 package lists for the RULE project > below soon. In this context, I'd like to know if people have already > noticed other cases like this, where a finer partitioning of apps and > libraries into more/differently structured RPMs would have helped > users who need to cut down on disk usage for whatever reason. > > If you want, you can even post the rpm names to me, and I'll summarize > everything here later.
You might find that pico is bundled with pine due to their odd (and more than a little nasty) licensing. There is an open source version of a pico work-alike called "nano" that you might want to try instead if you aren't interested in pine. -- ********************************************************************** Chris Kloiber, RHCE Red Hat,Inc. Hardware Certification aka 1801 Varsity Dr. Enterprise Support "WireHead" Raleigh, NC 27606 **********************************************************************
