FYI: gaim and gaim-encryption SPLIT

rizzo

I've just committed net-im/gaim and net-im/gaim-encryption packages that are now separate from each other. This is as of gaim-0.75-r3. gaim-encryption obviously depends on >=gaim-0.75-r3.

This is good for all of us in so many ways. encryption users won't have to re-install all of gaim just to update encryption. Those who don't want encryption won't be prompted with new gaim revisions solely for encryption bumps.

From a package management point of view this allows us to give gaim-encryption the treatment of a proper package and copy it's docs and such into the system that were previously ignored.

Thanks to gaim-encryption author Bill Tompkins for helping me through this process.

nonotme · Guru Joined: 29 Sep 2003 Posts: 356 Location: on.ca

sounds like a good idea to me

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Sequentious · Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2004 7:00 am Post subject:

Glad i caught this. Thanks for taking the time to explain the reason, although I probably could have lived with "because"
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Admiral LSD · Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2004 12:01 pm Post subject:

What happens when gaim gets updated and the installed version of gaim-encryption won't compile under it? If a user has both gaim and gaim-encryption installed won't gaim-encryption be temporarily b0rked until a new version is released?
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Superduck · Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2004 12:58 pm Post subject:

Cool. I'm a avid user of gaim encryption.

Admiral LSD`: yes, but that's the way it goes. It's the same with shared libraries. It's really _not_ a problem genereally unless the author of one of the packages is away and can't update.

rizzo · Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2004 11:17 pm Post subject:

UPDATE: I've just added PDEPEND to gaim so, if you have USE="ssl", the gaim ebuild will automatically install gaim-encryption afterward.

Thanks to vapier for pointing that tip out to me.

razamatan · Apprentice Joined: 28 Feb 2003 Posts: 160

having emerge problems..

razamatan · Apprentice Joined: 28 Feb 2003 Posts: 160

well... i filled out a bug report

to fix this problem w/ the emerge, i used:

razamatan · Apprentice Joined: 28 Feb 2003 Posts: 160

lol... i love it when i fix things myself...

go see the bug report i filed if you wanna see my trek...

but the short of it:

if you run *just* mozilla-firebird and have nspr and nss installed, then you need to USE="-mozilla" for both emerges of gaim and gaim-encryption.
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rizzo · Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 1:46 pm Post subject:

Yes you are correct.

If you have mozilla in use, however, then mozilla should be installed as a dependency, so it should have worked.

nsahoo · l33t Joined: 17 Jul 2003 Posts: 618

after i did a emerge sync and updated gaim with gaim-encryption, I can't login now.

rizzo · Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 9:26 pm Post subject:

razamatan · Apprentice Joined: 28 Feb 2003 Posts: 160

rizzo · Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2004 2:39 am Post subject:

Well then there is nothing I can do in the ebuild. All I can do is check portage to see if mozilla is installed. Your portage said it was.

Bottom line is if you aren't using mozilla you should have USE="-mozilla" in make.conf anyway.