Re: [rmail-mbox-branch]: mail-utils

[Richard Stallman]

    >     You're right, that sounds suboptimal.  However, I'm afraid that Gnus
    >     people will not like the idea of adapting Gnus to a new code and I
    >     don't want to force them to do this.
    > 
    > Sorry, what does this refer to?  Force them to do what?

    Force Gnus developers to adapt Gnus to a new MIME library.

It would be easy to replace the old files with a compatible
interface to the new code.  Or just give the new code the same
interface.  Then they would not need to change
anything in Gnus.