No Pidgin/Gaim in the comming release of Slackware

May 12, 2007

May 11 23:49:23 http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/WhyPackagesExist <-- apparently they don't like Slackware. Assholes.

xap/pidgin-2.0.0-i486-2.tgz: Here’s a little excerpt from:
http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/WhyPackagesExist
“We have no developers using Slack, and furthermore, several of us actively
dislike that distribution for its history of broken installs, as well as
for its non-existant package management. You cannot create true packages
for Slack.”
Well, I’m somewhat shocked by this, having never (to my knowledge) done
anything to any of the former GAIM or Pidgin developers to make them mad at
me, Slackware, or anyone on the Slackware team. I guess if they feel it’s
not possible to make a “true” Pidgin package for Slackware, there’s no point
in continuing to try. Having put out 7 security advisories on GAIM, I’m
quite sure there will be less work here if Pidgin is not included.
The Pidgin package has been moved to the “unsupported” directory. For the
record, I do not actively dislike Pidgin or any of their developers, but I
do plan to use Kopete from now on.

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