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On Monday 04 February 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On Monday 04 February 2008, Michael Sullivan wrote: |
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> > Why is gaim no longer in portage? Is it dead upstream? |
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> It's been dead for some time since AOL had a hissy fit over the name. |
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> The new gaim is now called pidgin. It's not a new product really, just a |
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> version bump that is a name change. |
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> It was hard masked in portage very recently. Unfortunately for gaim |
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> users, the upgrade consists of unmerge gaim, merge pidgin, import |
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> settings. |
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OK, I can surely do that, but shouldn't portage warn me about Gaim being hard |
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masked? Is my portage borked, or is this behaviour no longer valid/expected? |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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