From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1ICxi5-00048K-V9 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 13:12:26 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l6NDBTgV015396; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 13:11:29 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l6ND9bYH013031 for ; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 13:09:37 GMT Received: from [192.168.5.56] (hakone.magma-net.pl [81.219.231.40]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CB2664DDD for ; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 13:09:35 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: net-im/pidgin protocols From: Dawid =?UTF-8?Q?W=C4=99gli=C5=84ski?= To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <20070723133852.7a5ee0b2@luna.home> References: <20070723133852.7a5ee0b2@luna.home> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 15:07:43 +0200 Message-Id: <1185196063.27513.23.camel@sapphire> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id l6NDBTiR015396 X-Archives-Salt: 781a746f-80a5-4289-be9f-901bee4b6ee0 X-Archives-Hash: 76943305f86601d3412d92cda0b5a3fb Dnia 23-07-2007, pon o godzinie 13:38 +0200, Christian Faulhammer napisa=C5=82(a): > "Eric Polino" : >=20 > > Would it be possible to have all the protocols for net-im/pidgin > > turned on by default. We often get people coming to #pidgin looking > > for help as to why they can't get MSN or some other protocol working. > > It most often is because they haven't enabled the given protocol USE > > flag. >=20 > Without doubting the decision made about the msn USE flag, here are > some quotes from a bug report: >=20 > "I am not sure if it's a bug ... > anyway, at least on AMD64 you have removed MSN protocol. > Right now I am avoiding an upgrade because the flag has been marked as > not usable.[...]" >=20 > [Some discussion later] >=20 > "If I see (-msn%*) and as far as I know it means that you are removing > the protocol." [Editor's note: (-msn%) means that the USE flag has been > removed and was not enabled] >=20 > [Even more bitching] >=20 > "Otherwise, if this was not the case, it's not written anywhere that > this flag is incorporated .... oh, yes I know it is in the Changelog, > and I have read it before filing this bug, but come on ... that's not > the point. In this case, you should do like skype, i.e.: emerge pidgin > (msn) (yahoo) (icq) spell tcl tk -avahi -bonjour ... and so far and so > on ... and you should not delete/remove the flag in the way you did. >=20 > Licq still uses msn flag .... so I user may understand that licq is the > only software supporting MSN." That's why we do have ChangeLogs and --changelog switch to let users know about changes. > V-Li >=20 Regards --=20 ,-----------------------------. | Dawid W=C4=99gli=C5=84ski | | cla@gentoo.org | | cla @ irc.freenode.net | | GPG: 295E72D9 | `-----------------------------' --=20 gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list