Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: net-im/pidgin protocols

[Dawid Węgliński]

Dnia 23-07-2007, pon o godzinie 13:38 +0200, Christian Faulhammer
napisał(a):
> "Eric Polino" <aluink@×××××.com>:
>
> > 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.
>
>  Without doubting the decision made about the msn USE flag, here are
> some quotes from a bug report:
>
> "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.[...]"
>
> [Some discussion later]
>
> "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]
>
> [Even more bitching]
>
> "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.
>
> 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
>

Regards
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