El 22/11/24 a las 1:44, Chris Hofstaedtler escribió:
On Thu, Nov 21, 2024 at 10:28:41PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote:
El 21/11/24 a las 22:01, Chris Hofstaedtler escribió:
util-linux recently stopped installing mesg(1).
Does this mean that mesg will not exist at all, or maybe
it is in another package?
It will not exist at all.
Well, I'm not happy about the way mesg and write have been removed.
Is not the case that "mesg n" also disables talk? If yes, maybe
a better idea would have been to remove write but not mesg.
Also: What would happen if a user takes the write program
from an old Debian release and put it in their $HOME. Would it
work as normal, or would it need some special capability?
If it would work as normal, then users would still need "mesg n"
to disable incoming messages.
So: Can we rethink the details of this removal?
Thanks.
