* [gentoo-dev] net-im/pidgin protocols
@ 2007-07-19 4:31 99% Eric Polino
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From: Eric Polino @ 2007-07-19 4:31 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-dev; +Cc: tester, drizzt, deryni
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.
There is nothing gained in turning a protocol off. At the very most
you might save on 100K of memory, and a small amount of compile time
(pidgin takes a good while to compile, so this is a small percentage).
On the other hand, by having them off by default, people often lose a
lot of time figuring out why they are missing some protocol. Finding
out which ones they want, setting up package.use... The wanted gain
is lost in research and setup time. I would understand if they were
huge aspects of the application that took up tons of HD space, tons of
RAM and took a while to compile, but they aren't.
I have two suggestions for solutions. The protocol flags could be
removed and would make them on all the time. Or if the overzealous
user insists on having some off, there could be negative flags such as
nomsn, noaim, etc.
I am busy with a GSoC project right now, but I can offer a diff for an
ebuild that would provide this functionality once I find time to.
Thanks,
Eric
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