104798 – app-xemacs/mh-e does not depend on nmh

Bug 104798 - app-xemacs/mh-e does not depend on nmh

Summary: app-xemacs/mh-e does not depend on nmh

Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	XEmacs team

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Reported:	2005-09-04 06:00 UTC by Clemens Fruhwirth
Modified:	2007-01-07 13:07 UTC (History)
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Description Clemens Fruhwirth 2005-09-04 06:00:20 UTC

mh-e does need an MH implementation. emerge -pve mh-e does not show such an
implementation. Solution: make mh-e depend on mail-client/nmh.

Comment 1 Hans de Graaff gentoo-dev

2006-12-10 04:20:54 UTC

Unfortunately the problem is more complicated. The mh-e package is also used by a number of other packages. For example, app-xemacs/net-utils depends on mh-e because xemacsbug.el tries to access 'mh-e-user-agent. 

The implication of this is that people trying to emerge net-utils would also get nmh installed, even though they would never use it. The same is true for a number of other packages.

Normally this would be solved by including USE flags, so we could perhaps add a nmh USE flag to app-xemacs/mh-e.