Hello all, I've been a big fan of Pidgin-Blinklight, which flashes the Thinkpad light (or Asus equivalent) when a message is received. I have contacted the creator and he has granted me permission to distribute his code. The attached files include both the ebuild as well as a quick patch to fix an incorrect libexec directory in order to work on Gentoo. Only dependency is net-im/pidgin. This is my first ebuild. If there is anything wrong, please--PLEASE--let me know. Andrew
Created attachment 190456 [details] pidgin-blinklight ebuild
Created attachment 190458 [details, diff] fixes broken libexec directory
You should not be installing anything into /usr/local. Also, if you're using the debian tarball, you can use their patchset as well. Look around for DEBIAN_PV being used in other ebuilds.
This is now in sunrise overlay: http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/sunrise/browser/sunrise/x11-plugins/pidgin-blinklight
Hello, everyone. It seems that at least one ebuild related to this bug exists in the Sunrise overlay at the moment. However, I have to regretfully announce that after a long inactivity period the Sunrise project has been discontinued and the related overlay will be eventually removed. For this reason, I'd like to ask you to reevaluate the ebuilds and consider moving them. If you'd like to maintain a package from Sunrise in Gentoo, please take a look at our Proxy Maintainers [1] project. Please make sure to take ebuilds from the unreviewed developer Sunrise repository [2] rather than the -reviewed one, since the latter has not been updated for over a year. While at it, please note that: 1. Adding a package to Gentoo requires declaring yourself as an active maintainer for it. All bugs regarding the package will be assigned to you, and you will be expected to maintain it. 2. Some packages may not be suitable for addition anymore. While there's no strong rules that would prevent you from adding a package, it may be a bad idea to add old-unmaintained packages that will shortly result in a large number of bugs reported with no solution. If that is the case, please close the bug as RESOLVED/OBSOLETE to make it easier to find packages worth adding. 3. Some of the bugs were already closed as WONTFIX/OBSOLETE/... while the relevant ebuild was kept in Sunrise. If you disagree with the original decision, you still can add the ebuild via proxy-maint. 4. Pleaes note that many of the Sunrise ebuilds are old and may be buggy. If you decide to move them, please make sure to update/clean them up. The proxy-maint team will also review your ebuilds, therefore making sure they land in Gentoo in good quality. Once again, thank you for your contribution. We hope that you will still want to contribute to Gentoo, through proxy-maint or otherwise. [1]:https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Proxy_Maintainers [2]:https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/sunrise.git/
