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to: Nicholas Boel
from: Benny Pedersen
date: 2024-08-04 03:43:00
subject: fmail on gentoo fails wit

Hello Nicholas!

24 Jul 2024 17:55, Nicholas Boel wrote to Benny Pedersen:

 BP>> ncurses 6.5 is hardmasked in gentoo currently
 NB> Are you using Gentoo stable?

moving targets are not stable :=)

 NB> There is no reason for ncurses to be 
 NB> hardmasked at this point.

it still is on gentoo

 NB> Looks like Archlinux is already on the 3rd 
 NB> iteration of ncurses 6.5:

+1

 NB> Packages (1) ncurses-6.5-3
 BP>> so lets solve fmail without break gentoo :)
 NB> It's hard to believe FMail (FConfig, specifically) needs ncurses 6.5, 
 NB> since Wilfred was compiling it long before that was out.

i belive this, Wilfred did not even need pkg-config :)

 NB> You could always just unmask ncurses 6.5. :)

yes will do when i can


 Regards Benny

... too late to die young :)

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