From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HauO1-0000Ce-AQ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 09 Apr 2007 13:58:25 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l39DtWWV012210; Mon, 9 Apr 2007 13:55:32 GMT Received: from spore.ath.cx (c-24-245-14-14.hsd1.mn.comcast.net [24.245.14.14]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l39DiURk023918 for ; Mon, 9 Apr 2007 13:44:30 GMT Received: from pascal.spore.ath.cx (pascal.spore.ath.cx [192.168.1.100]) by spore.ath.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id 915A4416AF for ; Mon, 9 Apr 2007 08:44:29 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2007 08:44:29 -0500 From: Dan Farrell To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Why are gentoo people so in love with colorized output?!? Message-ID: <20070409084429.7b67308b@pascal.spore.ath.cx> In-Reply-To: <20070408192503.75bd8a92@osage.osagesoftware.com> References: <20070404041739.GA15293@crowfix.com> <87fy7glkzg.fsf@newton.gmurray.org.uk> <200704040822.13232.bo.andresen@zlin.dk> <200704051807.36759.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <461548D6.4050103@bredband.net> <20070407122631.08999842@pascal.spore.ath.cx> <20070408093620.127b03d2@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> <20070408104000.7aaf5bdb@pascal.spore.ath.cx> <20070408175621.0afe8ac7@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> <20070408192503.75bd8a92@osage.osagesoftware.com> Organization: Spore, Ltd. X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.4.0 (GTK+ 2.10.6; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 89f8546b-e465-4142-83bb-aedb8bf3332d X-Archives-Hash: 60d986d8cfc2285c049ea8ee454b434b On Sun, 8 Apr 2007 19:25:03 -0400 David Relson 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