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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mutt-1.2.5i-5


On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 11:34:46AM -0500, Gary R Van Sickle wrote:
> > There is provision for post-isntall scripts, but I suggest a simpler
> > approach of jsut installing /etc/muttrc.default. Then the users config
> > is never overwritten, and a clean config is awlays available for
> > reference.
> >
> > Rob
> 
> The problem I see there is that first-time installers then wouldn't have an
> /etc/muttrc at all until they happened to stumble across the muttrc.default.
> I could probably pretty easily set things up so that an /etc/muttrc.default
> gets installed, and then have a post-install script copy it to /etc/muttrc
> if and ony if it doesn't already exist.  How does the post-install script
> functionality work?  Can you point me to some docs or other explanation?

Don't change anything.

The users should change $HOME/.muttrc instead of /etc/Muttrc.

Corinna

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