Bug 244180 – Disabling extraneous protocols in net-im/pidgin and x11-plugins/purple-plugin_pack

• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Randall Wald 2008-10-24 20:32:14 UTC]

Whenever I added a new account in Pidgin, the extra protocols which couldn't be disabled with USE flags always bothered me. I'm referring specifically to MySpaceIM and Simple in the main program, and the Napster and SNPP plugins provided by the purple-plugin_pack. So I made modified ebuilds of those two packages which allow for enabling those protocols with a USE flag and which disable them if that flag is not specified. Attached are the modified ebuilds, as well as the output of "diff original_file.ebuild my_version.ebuild"; I never really got the hang of creating proper patch files, though, and if there's some other command I should be running to generate them, please tell me.

[Comment 1 Randall Wald 2008-10-24 20:32:45 UTC]

Created attachment 169758 [details]
Pidgin ebuild with new USE flags

[Comment 2 Randall Wald 2008-10-24 20:33:08 UTC]

Created attachment 169760 [details]
purple-plugin_pack ebuild with new USE flags

[Comment 3 Randall Wald 2008-10-24 20:34:42 UTC]

Created attachment 169762 [details, diff]
Diff of current ebuild against my new one

[Comment 4 Randall Wald 2008-10-24 20:34:59 UTC]

Created attachment 169764 [details, diff]
Diff of current ebuild against my new one

[Comment 5 Wormo (RETIRED) 2008-10-25 19:03:51 UTC]

Thanks for submitting your ebuild modifications, assigning to pidgin ebuild maintainers.

[Comment 6 Olivier Crete (RETIRED) 2008-12-28 05:49:50 UTC]

These protocols don't add any extra deps, and are actually very small files. So I have no interest in making the ebuild more complicated.