On 2026-03-09, Eli Schwartz wrote: > On 3/8/26 8:14 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > >>> (BTW, this might be a good read, re: binary package compatibility >>> between profiles: >>> >>> <news://gmane.io/[email protected]> ) >> >> Hm. I'm having trouble installing a USENET client. Is that available in any >> other form?
It's sad not so many software can handle that; some browsers like Lynx and SeaMonkey Navigator can handle news: URLs. (Does or did Konqueror support such URLs too? I seem to recall it used to support a bunch of stuff back in KDE3 days.) > I took a lucky guess: "it is an email from a gentoo mailing list". > > gmane gives the Message-ID, and https://archives.gentoo.org/ does the > same for urls. So, try cp'ing it in: > > > https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-user/[email protected]/ > > Ah, there we go, it matches. It is also from me, heh. Oh, yes, I should have added a web URL too. I'd normally go with DMARC, but if that approach can be used with Gentoo's own archive, that's great! (And yes, you've written a few messages about the current binpkgs system that I either saved or copied IDs for reference, thanks!) -- Nuno Silva
