Bug 195719

Summary:	Libpurple is not installable without pidgin
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Pavol Rusnak <stick>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	minor	CC:	coldwind
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Pavol Rusnak 2007-10-13 16:55:22 UTC

Library libpurple is not installable without whole pidgin package.

Suggestion: split off libpurple package and modify pidgin to depend on libpurple. (Finch - text mode client - should be split too.)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-10-13 16:57:05 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 191237 ***

Comment 2 Santiago M. Mola (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-01-16 21:30:44 UTC

You may want to report this upstream so they make libpurple, finch and pidgin different packages.

Comment 3 Pavol Rusnak 2008-01-16 23:38:57 UTC

Filed as ticket 4667: http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/4667

Comment 4 Pavol Rusnak 2008-01-18 00:53:56 UTC

Pidgin upstream will not split source tarballs into three.

"Building three binary packages from one source package is perfectly trivial. Gentoo should be able to handle that fine. This isn't really a justification to separate them."

I think it could be possible to 
1) unpack source tarball
2) run ./configure
3) change into libpurple directory
4) run make and make install in libpurple directory
(and the same way for pidgin and finch)

but it would triple compilation time when installing all 3 packages :(