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

[Stratos Psomadakis]

i'm a bit confused...
i have the same problem...
i try to make an upgrade and it says that pidgin is going to be rebuilt
without the msn use flag(althoug i have enabled the use flag for
pidgin,in /etc/portage/package.use)...
what's the problem?...is there a solution?...
:/
thx...
O/H Christian Faulhammer έγραψε:
> "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."
>
> V-Li
>
>