bug#26967: alpine: provide system-wide config

[ng0]

Ricardo Wurmus transcribed 0.9K bytes:
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> ng0 <address@hidden> writes:
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> > Without this patch, alpine silently(?) complains until a
> > $HOME/.pinerc exists:
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> How does it complain “silently”?  :)

I removed my .pinerc symlink and this is what happens. I should've
described the problem before I sent this:

Upon first start, a .pinerc is generated from a global file[1], but
we also get a ".pine-debug1" and with every start a new one this
with a number increase. Is it just because of these files? I'm not
a alpine user.. This .pine-debug1 is appended. Twice because I forgot
how to remove attachments.

1: I _guess_ ... the existing file is actually not existing so I don't
know what alpine does here. Fixing it the way I did it seemed like
the first possible solution to me.

> > The way they are created is copied from slackware and seems to be
> > the recommended way of providing them, as no such file exists in
> > the distribution of alpine.
> 
> Recommended by whom?  I see in the manual [1] that

Actually this is a comment in a file I can longer find (slackbuilds?)
which came up when I searched for this problem.

>     $prefix/lib/pine.conf (Pine's global configuration file)
>     $prefix/lib/pine.conf.fixed (Non-overridable global configuration file)
> 
> should exist, but it doesn’t say what should be in them.  Could they
> just be empty?  Given that one of them is for non-overridable global
> configurations I’d rather not fill them.
> 
> [1]: https://www.washington.edu/alpine/tech-notes/installation.html#files-unix
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Keep in mind that this  |-- is not the alpine we use.
If it is 

> WDYT?
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