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   On Sat, 3 Jan 2026 21:57:23 -0000 (UTC) Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
      
   > On Sat, 3 Jan 2026 18:40:16 -0000 (UTC), Lars Poulsen wrote:   
   >   
   >> Apparently, GNU-Mailutils is not in the Fedora distribution. There are   
   >> RPMs for it in SuSE, but I am reluctant to mix "foreign" RPMs into my   
   >> Fedora; I have seen that greate small messes in dependencies. And I   
   >> really don't like to compile from sources.   
   >   
   > Maybe you should switch to a more comprehensive distro?   
   >   
   >    
   >   
   > And what’s with this reluctance to compile from source, anyway? It’s   
   > part of the bread and butter of running any Linux distro.   
      
   Yes, debian has it and openSuSE has it.   
   And I can confirm that compiling from scratch is not as easy as it looked   
   like. I tried to create a package for Mageia, based on the original   
   tarball, but there are plenty of dependencies not visible during   
   configure/make/makeinstall. It compiled and built, but the result was not   
   funtional. Creating a new rpm out of that failed as well.   
      
   Trying to "swipe" the source rpm from other distros is also far from   
   trivial because most of them are based on tarball 3.15 ... 3.17, which is   
   6 years or older. So, the current version 3.21 makes some patches obsolete   
   and instead new dependencies are to be expected.   
      
   First I also thought of this text-based set of tools as being an easy job   
   to build a package, but it turned out that this is not the case.   
      
   Best reagards,   
      
   Markus   
      
      
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