Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: Here's a snippet from the alpine specfile: # Using "Conflicts" instead of Obsoletes because while alpine is substantially # compatible with pine the change to Unicode breaks important user # functionality such as non-ASCII encoded saved passwords. Additionally, there # are also many patches to pine floating around that for political/technical # reasons will not be integrated into alpine. (I'd like to stay out of it... # just search "Mark Crispin maildir" for the gory details.) Since licensing # prevents a Fedora pine package, I cannot predict what patches users might # have and so want to warn them instead of automatically replacing their pine # install with an alpine that could break their configuration Obsoletes: pine I personally would also rather it contain Obsoletes, but this was done at behest of alpine's primary maintainer. Some time has passed, so I'll try to convince him otherwise again. -- Rex