See also bug 188671. === ebuild fix === --- /usr/portage/net-im/gaim/gaim-1.5.0.ebuild 2007-07-12 07:35:54.000000000 +0200 +++ /usr/local/portage/net-im/gaim/gaim-1.5.0.ebuild 2007-08-22 21:43:50.000000000 +0200 @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ spell? ( >=app-text/gtkspell-2.0.2 ) gnutls? ( net-libs/gnutls ) !gnutls? ( >=dev-libs/nss-3.9.2-r2 ) - silc? ( >=net-im/silc-toolkit-0.9.12-r3 ) + silc? ( >=net-im/silc-toolkit-0.9.12-r3 <net-im/silc-toolkit-1.1 ) eds? ( gnome-extra/evolution-data-server ) krb4? ( >=app-crypt/mit-krb5-1.3.6-r1 ) tcl? ( dev-lang/tcl )
Use net-im/pidgin, this will be removed from the tree.
I wanted but I had to roll back to gaim because of bug 189876 (pidgin simply does not work, see also http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-570864.html).