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|    Benny Pedersen to Nicholas Boel    |
|    fmail on gentoo fails with ncurses 6.4 b    |
|    04 Aug 24 03:43:42    |
      MSGID: 2:230/0 66aef9ba       TZUTC: 0000       REPLY: 1:154/10 66a18662       CHRS: LATIN-1 2       TID: hpt/lnx 1.9.0-cur 17-02-17       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 :)              --- Msged/LNX 6.1.2 (Linux/6.9.10-gentoo-dist (x86_64))        * Origin: gopher://fido.junc.eu/ (2:230/0)       SEEN-BY: 18/200 90/1 103/705 105/81 106/201 124/5016 129/305 153/757       SEEN-BY: 153/7715 154/10 30 201/0 203/0 124 412 218/700 221/0 1 226/30       SEEN-BY: 227/114 229/110 111 206 300 317 400 426 428 470 550 616 664       SEEN-BY: 229/700 230/0 240/1120 5832 266/512 280/464 5003 282/1038       SEEN-BY: 291/111 292/854 8125 301/1 310/31 320/219 322/757 341/66       SEEN-BY: 341/234 342/200 396/45 423/120 460/58 467/888 633/267 280       SEEN-BY: 633/281 384 410 412 418 420 509 2744 712/848 770/1 5020/400       SEEN-BY: 5020/545 5075/35       PATH: 230/0 203/0 280/464 633/280 229/426           |
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