I recently found that there is a modification about use for pidgin from 2.6.3 to 2.6.4-r1. From the Changelog: Back startup-notification and xscreensaver USE flags. By default the use of pidgin 2.6.4-r1 is net-im/pidgin-2.6.4-r1 USE="dbus eds gstreamer gtk ncurses nls perl spell startup-notification%* -debug -doc -gadu -gnutls -groupwise -idn -meanwhile -networkmanager -prediction -qq -sasl -silc -tcl -tk -xscreensaver% -zephyr -zeroconf% (-bonjour%)" It looks like xscreensaver is not enabled by default, and by checking carefully the emerge information confirms this Use XScreenSaver Extension.... : no However I think it should be enabled, because reporting idle time by events from keyboard or mouse movement is an important and common function of pidgin. Is there any specific reason to disable it by default or some other little mistakes? :) Thanks for concern. Reproducible: Always Portage 2.1.7.16 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.4.2, glibc-2.11-r1, 2.6.31-gentoo-r6 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.31-gentoo-r6-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Duo_CPU_E8400_@_3.00GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.1 Timestamp of tree: Fri, 08 Jan 2010 20:00:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 4.0_p35 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.10 dev-lang/python: 2.6.4, 3.1.1-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.1.0 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r8 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.0 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.6.0 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.65 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.3, 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.20 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6b virtual/os-headers: 2.6.30-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA PUEL dlj-1.1" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=core2 -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-march=core2 -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests ccache distlocks fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://www.cyberuse.com/gentoo/ " LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" MAKEOPTS="-j1" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage /usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 avahi bash-completion berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdr cleartype cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus dri dts dvd dvdr eds emboss encode evo fam firefox flac fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk hal iconv jpeg ldap libnotify mad mikmod mmx mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap multilib mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl png policykit ppds pppd python qt3support quicktime readline reflection sdl session spell spl sql sse sse2 ssl startup-notification svg sysfs tcpd thunar tiff truetype unicode usb vim-syntax vorbis webkit x264 xml xorg xulrunner xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ice1712" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
I couldn't agree more. Completely missed that when reviewing these changes. Made it the default now. Fixed
(In reply to comment #1) > I couldn't agree more. Completely missed that when reviewing these changes. > Made it the default now. Fixed > Thanks a lot :) Have a nice day.
I disagree. xscreensaver is global flag and as such should not be IUSE default enabled. Look, one may say that without gtk pidgin is not pidgin, but well, having gtk enabled with IUSE-default is stupid idea. Same goes for any global USE flag.
(In reply to comment #3) > I disagree. xscreensaver is global flag and as such should not be IUSE default > enabled. Look, one may say that without gtk pidgin is not pidgin, but well, > having gtk enabled with IUSE-default is stupid idea. Same goes for any global > USE flag. OK, so when you have one package with (local) USE=foo, then it's OK. Say after one year, 10 completely unrelated packages with IUSE=foo get collected in the tree, someone makes the flag global and then the IUSE="+foo" becomes invalid? Uh, how does this make any sense and where's such policy written? Maintainer should be free to choose whatever flag(s) to be enabled by IUSE-defaults, per norm those would match upstream defaults or whatever sane default to prevent in-flow of stupid "bugs", like "ooooh WTH, I have no GUI". And wrt your gtk example, that'd be yet another that should be enabled by default here.
ok let's keep this issue closed for now.
