Subject: Re: chat/pidgin
To: Jan Danielsson <jan.m.danielsson@gmail.com>
From: Adam Hamsik <haaaad@gmail.com>
List: pkgsrc-users
Date: 05/28/2007 21:31:41
On May 28, 2007, at 9:10 PM, Jan Danielsson wrote:

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> Adam Hamsik wrote:
>>>>    Does it make sense to make it which frontend to build  
>>>> configurable
>>>> by the options framework?
>>>
>>> For me, it would be useful. Though Pidgin and Finch can be  
>>> considered
>>> separate.
>>>
>> I have looked a FreeBSD ports and they have libpurple, fitch and  
>> pidgin
>> packages, because other IM can use libpurple to connect and  
>> communicate
>> over IM networks.
>
>    Yeah, after thinking about it, I realized that:
>
>    1) It really should be split up into three separate packages.
>
>    2) I have no idea how to do that. :-)
>
I think that this is way to go
cp -R chat/pidgin chat/fitch
add fitch flag to Makefile and try to build change PLIST, change DESCR.

AFAIK pidgin has configure flag to build only libpurple so add also  
libpurple
package with process mentioned above.

>
>    Is anyone else working on this, or should I continue trying to  
> figure
> pkgsrc out?
>
Best option for you and pkgsrc is that you will do it ;D.

> - --
> Kind regards,
> Jan Danielsson
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