On Sun, 8 Apr 2007 19:25:03 -0400 David Relson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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 All right, fine. You've convinced me ; ) - Dan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
