Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Pavel Volkov <negaipub@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Jitsi or Other Skype Alternative
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 01:09:30
Message-Id: 2664200.aUCIkiB8EH@melforce
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Jitsi or Other Skype Alternative by Randy Westlund
1 On Tuesday 20 August 2013 11:12:32 Randy Westlund wrote:
2 > For a multitude of reasons, I'd like to get rid of skype. I've heard
3 > several people mention jitsi, but was surprised to find that it's not in
4 > the portage tree.
5 >
6 > Is jitsi being actively maintained in an overlay somewhere? Are there plans
7 > to put jitsi in the main tree?
8
9 There's jitsi in overlay (I forgot which). It can't be accepted into tree yet
10 because it needs to be stripped of bundled libraries and not all of them are
11 in tree. So the maintainer would have to add those to tree as well.
12
13 It's a lot of work and no one has volunteered yet. Find the jitsi bug on
14 bugs.gentoo.org for more info.