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"Eric Polino" <aluink@×××××.com>: |
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> Would it be possible to have all the protocols for net-im/pidgin |
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> turned on by default. We often get people coming to #pidgin looking |
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> for help as to why they can't get MSN or some other protocol working. |
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> It most often is because they haven't enabled the given protocol USE |
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> flag. |
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Without doubting the decision made about the msn USE flag, here are |
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some quotes from a bug report: |
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"I am not sure if it's a bug ... |
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anyway, at least on AMD64 you have removed MSN protocol. |
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Right now I am avoiding an upgrade because the flag has been marked as |
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not usable.[...]" |
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[Some discussion later] |
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"If I see (-msn%*) and as far as I know it means that you are removing |
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the protocol." [Editor's note: (-msn%) means that the USE flag has been |
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removed and was not enabled] |
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[Even more bitching] |
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"Otherwise, if this was not the case, it's not written anywhere that |
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this flag is incorporated .... oh, yes I know it is in the Changelog, |
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and I have read it before filing this bug, but come on ... that's not |
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the point. In this case, you should do like skype, i.e.: emerge pidgin |
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(msn) (yahoo) (icq) spell tcl tk -avahi -bonjour ... and so far and so |
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on ... and you should not delete/remove the flag in the way you did. |
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Licq still uses msn flag .... so I user may understand that licq is the |
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only software supporting MSN." |
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V-Li |
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http://www.gentoo.org/ |
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http://www.faulhammer.org/ |
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http://www.gnupg.org/ |
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