<mail> command missing?

[David]

On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 03:23:39AM -0800, Mike Bird wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 03:03, David wrote:
> > I've just done my second fresh install of Breezy (both for friends). 
> > Apparently the "mail" unix command is missing! These seems really odd. 
> > Have I missed something obvious?
> > 
> > It's not available from apt and I thought it was a basic shell command.
> > 
> > It's still there on two other machines that I upgraded from Hoary.
> > /usr/bin/mail
> 
> You'll need to install the mailx package.  It was required by
> ubuntu-base in Hoary but dropped for Breezy.  I have no idea why.
> 


This sounds like a bug to me, or at least some inappropriate dumbing down. 
Does this mean that with each new release of Ubuntu we need to check what 
has been considered inappropriate for the "average" user? 

What disappears next? Terminal? rm? Everyone knows how dangerous rm is ;-)

I'm really happy with Ubuntu, but that doesn't mean that everything the 
gods of ubuntu do is correct, and  this one doesn't look good to me.