abiword-plugins-2.6 now supports collaboration. It can use dev-cpp/asio for transport. New use flag is needed for this dependency
There is already a use flag for collaboration, it is jabber. asio was rejected for now because it's too much headache due to not enough keywords right now and it still being optional (I thought I wrote that in the ebuild or in the changelog).
hence closing as later.
If there is no asio library there will be no collaborate menu in abiword, hence even jabber won't be available
wrong, the menu is here for me while I don't have asio installed at all. The dep is purely optional, read the configure.ac and m4 macros if you can't convince yourself :)