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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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There is nothing gained in turning a protocol off. At the very most |
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you might save on 100K of memory, and a small amount of compile time |
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(pidgin takes a good while to compile, so this is a small percentage). |
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On the other hand, by having them off by default, people often lose a |
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lot of time figuring out why they are missing some protocol. Finding |
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out which ones they want, setting up package.use... The wanted gain |
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is lost in research and setup time. I would understand if they were |
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huge aspects of the application that took up tons of HD space, tons of |
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RAM and took a while to compile, but they aren't. |
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I have two suggestions for solutions. The protocol flags could be |
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removed and would make them on all the time. Or if the overzealous |
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user insists on having some off, there could be negative flags such as |
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nomsn, noaim, etc. |
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I am busy with a GSoC project right now, but I can offer a diff for an |
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ebuild that would provide this functionality once I find time to. |
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Thanks, |
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Eric |
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http://aluink.blogspot.com |
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"...indexable arrays, which may be thought of as functions whose |
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domains are isomorphic to contiguous subsets of the integers." |
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--Haskell 98 Library Report |
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