pine on FC4 (and DAG repository question)

[Rahul Sundaram]

Itay Furman wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to install pine on my FC4 machine, and would prefer to use 
> yum for the job to minimize future maintainance.  The general advice I 
> have found on the web was to use the DAG repository, 
> http://dag.wieers.com/.
>
> However:
> 1) DAG currently doesn't have an rpm for FC4; and,
> 2) DAG warns that it is incompatible with livna.org and fedora.us.
>
> Since I use Livna.org to update xine, for example, I would not like to 
> give up using it.
>
> So what are the risks of using DAG if I am only interested in updating 
> pine (and its dependencies) from that repository (assuming in the near 
> future there _will_ be an FC4 pine rpm).

Not much of a problem since Fedora Core or Extras wouldnt have pine as 
long as they dont use a open source license.

>
> Or, does DAG (and friends) provide the same coverage as Livna.org and 
> fedora.us, and I should abandon the latters?  (I hope I am not 
> starting a flame here... :-)
>
> Or, should I just abandon the concept of maintaining pine via yum and 
> go with the UW rpm?
>     http://www.washington.edu/pine/getpine/linux.html
>
> Thanks for any advice and comments. 

You could always switch over to mutt if that is a choice

regards
Rahul