joshua jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Fri, 20 Jul 2007 09:10:35 -0700:
> Honestly..this is not something to get picky over jakub. Upstream was > nice and actually came and politely asked us to change the defaults to > what most people would consider sane (all protocols by default). As I > think most people emerging pidgin..would like to use any protocol by > default..not go..hey I don't have yahoo, I should check my use flags. > Which obviously hasn't happened as users pop up in #pidgin to ask why > the heck there isn't a yahoo account available. [Dev-discussion, so kept posted here.] I've not seen this question come up yet, so I'll raise it. Shouldn't the question really depend on whether optional dependencies are pulled in by the protocols or not? If everything's pidgin internal, then if upstream wants all the protocols on as shipped, I think that's the sane thing to do. OTOH, if enabling those protocols pulls in all sorts of additional packages to support them, shipping with everything on just because it's possible is not the Gentoo way. That's what USE flags are for. If indeed additional dependencies are pulled in, IMO the USE flags should remain, and maybe someone needs to explain the Gentoo way to upstream. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
