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On Sun, 8 Apr 2007 19:25:03 -0400 |
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David Relson <relson@×××××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Sun, 8 Apr 2007 17:56:21 +0100 |
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> Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> > Hello Dan Farrell, |
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> > |
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> > > Unfortunately, everything above syl.claws 2.4 is masked testing on |
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> > > x86_64, and I don't want to get my hands dirty on this one. |
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> > > Perhaps one day... |
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> > |
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> > The problem here is that Claws development is proceeding so quickly |
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> > that no ebuild gets to spend the normal 30 days in testing before a |
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> > new Claws release. Having said that, I've never had a problem with |
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> > the testing ebuilds (they are still for stable Claws releases) on |
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> > amd64 or ppc. |
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> Dan, |
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> I used Sylpheed-Claws for several years, with the past 6 months being |
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> on Gentoo. Given the still rapid pace of claws' development (as |
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> Neil mentions), the only way to have new features and fixes for |
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> old is to turn on ~x86. Even though officially "experimental", |
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> the releases are all very, very usable. |
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> My recommendation is to add mail-client/claws-mail to package.keywords |
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> and run the latest version of claws-mail. You'll end up with a good |
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> program that, if not perfect, is 99.9% perfect :-> |
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> Regards, |
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> David |
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All right, fine. You've convinced me ; ) - Dan |
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