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 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1IBNie-0000ii-Vv for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 19 Jul 2007 04:34:29 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l6J4XYGx017260; Thu, 19 Jul 2007 04:33:34 GMT Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com (wa-out-1112.google.com [209.85.146.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l6J4VVPB014864 for ; Thu, 19 Jul 2007 04:31:32 GMT Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id k34so471129wah for ; Wed, 18 Jul 2007 21:31:31 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=EHQSqcz++HFj++hvwbPaw4SHx4alJFQ20Jv1e6xcv1sj/L8OTqXAX7LXb5Hay7FxRdc4+9h4Z4EX4Z6H6AvWSuXTT1By9Krr4LtDaVgXyW3eJ2GZUoRyA1hCJBxeQWMUJGnFBWvI97CgC7oyn+uBak4+vPYEWO6hJyLZOvYwpVk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=IYZUGwY9F53Wy756IZxRC1lp9eZWOKUADwFDiI81BYv8MpUY/dzbYUpwm4hAYtaZ0yQxzIzcPwBO6ucCCoc2FIBJUXkiTbyErrjHms5ORr4dXZ8E4fAGgUSD/ia5PMCTcWOJjzMX+7PiVlmeLKTjL+qyPbVSVohSLWM8mRwtivk= Received: by 10.114.178.1 with SMTP id a1mr2167458waf.1184819491319; Wed, 18 Jul 2007 21:31:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.115.18.13 with HTTP; Wed, 18 Jul 2007 21:31:31 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 00:31:31 -0400 From: "Eric Polino" To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-dev] net-im/pidgin protocols Cc: tester@gentoo.org, drizzt@gentoo.org, deryni@pidgin.im 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Archives-Salt: dea5705a-86f9-401a-b2bd-c20654ae3003 X-Archives-Hash: 89a1f6305ec73380005b3d9d7ad27ca2 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 -- http://aluink.blogspot.com -- "...indexable arrays, which may be thought of as functions whose domains are isomorphic to contiguous subsets of the integers." --Haskell 98 Library Report -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list