/bin/mail replacement (next generation of mailx)

Manuel Wolfshant wolfy at nobugconsulting.ro
Mon Jun 16 14:25:04 UTC 2008


Dmitry Butskoy wrote:
> Nigel Metheringham wrote:
>>
>> On 11 Jun 2008, at 16:06, Dmitry Butskoy wrote:
>>
>>> Nigel Metheringham wrote:
>>>> This looks good, but on a minimal system how many other packages
>>>> would be pulled in as dependancies over the existing mailx?
>>
>>> For now, "openssl" (or "nss") and "krb5-libs". Is it OK for a minimal
>>> system?
>>
>> Both of those ought to be on a system anyhow (openssh would need them).
>>
>> I was concerned that things like imap support could pull in a pile of
>> other deps
>
> Nope, all such are supported by nail itself.
>
>
> Regarding the minimal install -- Does it have Mozilla's nss library or 
> not? For the "Security Consolidation" process, recently started in 
> Fedora, we should build mailx/nail against nss (instead of openssl). 
> On the other hand, if the current "minimal installs" don`t have nss, 
> then IMHO we should still use openssl (at least while openssh uses it)...
>
>
> ~buc
> http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/DmitryButskoy
>

openssl is required by nash which is needed by mkinitrd which is in turn 
needed by kernel. so IMHO openssl is here to stay, too.




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