FreeBSD ports mail/mutt feature patches

[Kurt Hackenberg]

On Fri, May 05, 2023 at 12:37:02PM -0400, Derek Schrock wrote:

>Hello, I'm looking for any FreeBSD ports/pkg users of mail/mutt and
>hoping to get some feedback on option usage and which non-standard
>features you're using from the port's included extra patches.  This
>is mainly the *_PATCH options.
>
>You can find the post to the FreeBSD ports mailing here on the possible
>plan of what's to come for the port.  At a minimum removal of the quote
>patch however the possible removal of all feature patches (including
>maildir mtime).
>
>https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-ports/2023-May/003815.html
>
>If you are a user of this port/pkg please let me know such that I can
>gauge the importance of this.

Last week I didn't know those patches existed.  Now I've looked them 
over, and I won't miss them.  It's fine with me if you drop those 
feature patches.

Generally I agree that a distribution of a program should not modify 
the program -- eg, the FreeBSD port of Mutt shouldn't add features to it.