Aaron Peromsik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'll start with one issue meanwhile: it was around RC3 when I noticed > that secure IMAP didn't work with Gnus enymore. Yesterday I finally > tracked it down: secure IMAP requires ssl.el, which is part of the > emacs-w3 package. It seems that emacs-w3 and emacs-url were included > in RPMS4 of the 8.2 DL edition, but got dropped from 9.0 with the rest > of contribs. Probably these two packages should move to main? > Meanwhile I have installed the ones from 8.2 and I'm back in business > email-wise. (Of course mozilla always worked but I find gnus more > convenient for wading through cooker mail.)
a lot of advanced features of gnus depend on other packages. we cannot make regular emacs users to bloat their system.
