• fmail on gentoo fails with ncurses 6.4 but works slackware ncurses 6.3

    From Benny Pedersen@2:230/0 to Nicholas Boel on Sun Aug 4 03:43:42 2024
    Hello Nicholas!

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

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

    moving targets are not stable :=)

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

    it still is on gentoo

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

    +1

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

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

    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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