From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LVnY2-0006oB-5L for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 07 Feb 2009 13:48:42 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1331AE032D; Sat, 7 Feb 2009 13:48:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.apserver.co.uk (server2.alteredperspective.co.uk [212.13.194.103]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E718BE032D for ; Sat, 7 Feb 2009 13:48:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.apserver.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74BB99408B for ; Sat, 7 Feb 2009 13:48:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.apserver.co.uk ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (server2.alteredperspective.co.uk [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id GbCHAwhmD+lc for ; Sat, 7 Feb 2009 13:48:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: from [192.168.0.50] (home.twigathy.com [93.96.164.20]) by mail.apserver.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id BBB1894082 for ; Sat, 7 Feb 2009 13:48:36 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <498D9131.9070700@allenjb.me.uk> Date: Sat, 07 Feb 2009 13:48:33 +0000 From: AllenJB User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.19) Gecko/20090108 Lightning/0.9 Thunderbird/2.0.0.19 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ezmlm References: <20090207085526.GA11842@brankie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20090207085526.GA11842@brankie.xs4all.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: a4039a00-3f66-40fd-9783-97798b514cf1 X-Archives-Hash: 0c11cfebeb73548465159392db4df754 henkg@brankie.xs4all.nl wrote: > Hello, > > I have been using ezmlm for the past few yeears to manage some mailing > lists. Now emerge is warning me that these packages are masked for > removal. So what shoud I do next: > - stick with ezmlm as long as it keeps functioning > - uninstall ezeml an reinstall from source > - find a new mailinglist manager that works with qmail (and which one > would you advise?) > > Thanks. > > Kind regards, Henk. > > This package is masked for removal because it's unmaintained. That means upstream aren't releasing updates or working on the code in any way. You need to consider that this introduces problems with the software working with newer versions of its dependencies and the potential security issues. (No matter how great a code djb thinks he is) Just because a package "keeps functioning", doesn't mean it's safe to keep. You have to consider security issues, bugs, etc. Uninstalling it and installing it from source is plain silly. Overlays mean you can move the package to your own overlay and maintain it there under the package manager. Why on earth would you choose to install manually when you can use the package manager? You might also want to look at ezmlm-idx, which appears to be an at least somewhat active project that has maintained (a patch set for) ezmlm. My recommendation would be to find an actively maintained replacement (and for qmail too, while you're at it) AllenJB