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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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Alan McKinnon |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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