Pidgin seems not to have the support for silc protocol while gaim has it. The home page for pidgin seems to claim support also for pidgin, so it shoiuld be present also in pidgin (http://pidgin.im/pidgin/home/). Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge -pv pidgin 2. 3.
Sorry, this was error, the silc use flag is present.
Sorry, pidgin has the silc flag, but nor gaim nor pidgin seems to have some way of setting up silc account. It is present during configure phase but there is no place for account setup while it is present for icq, xmpp, irc ...
Do you have the same issues as bug 175787 ?
please have a look at bug 175787 (http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=175787) there are the instructions to solve your problem ... (hopefully ...)
Take a look at Bug #185260.
*** Bug 194598 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
seems liek this one is fixed