On Sun, 8 Apr 2007 17:56:21 +0100 Neil Bothwick wrote: > Hello Dan Farrell, > > > Unfortunately, everything above syl.claws 2.4 is masked testing on > > x86_64, and I don't want to get my hands dirty on this one. Perhaps > > one day... > > The problem here is that Claws development is proceeding so quickly > that no ebuild gets to spend the normal 30 days in testing before a > new Claws release. Having said that, I've never had a problem with > the testing ebuilds (they are still for stable Claws releases) on > amd64 or ppc.
Dan, I used Sylpheed-Claws for several years, with the past 6 months being on Gentoo. Given the still rapid pace of claws' development (as Neil mentions), the only way to have new features and fixes for old is to turn on ~x86. Even though officially "experimental", the releases are all very, very usable. My recommendation is to add mail-client/claws-mail to package.keywords and run the latest version of claws-mail. You'll end up with a good program that, if not perfect, is 99.9% perfect :-> Regards, David -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
