On Sunday 11 July 2010 20:42:54 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > In check ing for updates today, I found the following: > > - mail-client/nmh-1.3-r1 (masked by: package.mask) > /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask: > # Diego E. Pettenò <flamee...@gentoo.org> (24 Jun 2010) > # on behalf of QA team > # > # Fails to build with Berkeley DB 5.0 (#319937); current > # stable fails to build with current stable glibc (bug > # #320645), last activity in both ebuild and upstream in 2008 > # (and even then it wasn't from maintainers); uses $EDITOR > # and $PAGER at build-time (bug #294762, and slightly related > # bug #262150. One configure test becomes interactive if > # app-editors/elvis is installed (bug #323541). Multiple > # collisions. > # > # Feel free to pick this up and maintain it properly, but > # unless a new maintainer can be found, this package is > # slated for removal. > # > # Removal on 2010-08-23 > > This is what I use for my mail reader -- with the emacs interface -- so > I am wondering what I can do once this happens -- I imagine I can keep > it installed, but it would not be a good situation. > > thanks in advance for any ideas.
Pick one: 1. use another mailer. There's no shortage of them 2. fix nmh yourself. It seems like no-one else is going to. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
