On Mon, 13 May 2002 18:44:51 -0500
"Ben Lutgens" <blutgens@sistina.com> wrote:

> On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 06:41:35PM -0400, William McArthur wrote:
> >I was about to send a success email because it worked fine on the web 
> >pages I tried but then when I clicked send in the mail compose window 
> >nothing happened.
> >
> >That is a problem worthy of keeping it masked IMO.
> 
> I tend to disagree as alot of people do not require mail support in mozilla.
> 
> Couldn't it just be made to die if the use for mozilla mail support was
> enabled with the message that says "Mozilla mail support is broken in this
> rev. If you require mozilla mail support use $NON_BUSTED_VERSION"
> 

I believe it is a bad idea to start including 'broken' ebuilds in portage.
I don't believe it is professional.  If something doesn't work, then it should
be use-at-your-own-risk, which is why we have the masking feature.

~ryan~