From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r105648: Make sendmail-query-once update send-mail-function directly. Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 14:40:34 -0400 Message-ID: References: <877h5nniu9.fsf@stupidchicken.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1315766447 14386 80.91.229.12 (11 Sep 2011 18:40:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 18:40:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: cyd@stupidchicken.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 11 20:40:41 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R2oxN-0002J6-43 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 11 Sep 2011 20:40:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35326 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R2oxM-0007ao-NW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 11 Sep 2011 14:40:40 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:39371) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R2oxI-0007aj-Br for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Sep 2011 14:40:38 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R2oxH-0005S5-9T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Sep 2011 14:40:36 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:53933) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R2oxH-0005S0-7s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Sep 2011 14:40:35 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R2oxG-0000L2-V0; Sun, 11 Sep 2011 14:40:34 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen on Sat, 10 Sep 2011 20:20:46 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.10 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:143895 Archived-At: The difference is that we're forcing the users to a single value now that we can't ever change again. So if, for instance, the Linux people pull themselves together and create a proper API for querying how mail is supposed to be sent out, Linux has nothing to do with this issue. Such a convention would not be implemented in a kernel. Are you talking about the GNU system and calling it "Linux"? -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use free telephony http://directory.fsf.org/category/tel/