No Pidgin for Slackers

No Pidgin for Slackers

As a staunch Slackware user, and former Gaim/Pidgin user, I was somewhat upset at what the Pidgin Web site towards Slackware (and SUSE, also). I've a history of compiling Gaim from source (from their Web site) and installing it from Slackware packages (since Slackware version 10.0). I also have experience compiling Gaim from the Slackware source package (which is hardly any different an experience than getting Gaim's source). In all this time (more than 2 years) I've NEVER had any trouble with dependencies, shared library conflicts, non-functioning programs, etc. running Gaim/Pidgin on Slackware.

Which brings me to this question: If Gaim/Pidgin has "...no developers using Slack...", then how come they seem to be experts at whether one can create true packages for Slackware, or that Slackware has a history of "broken installs"? Pat Volkerding and volunteers have built perfectly-functioning Gaim/Pidgin packages for Slackware since at least version 10.0!

I followed Pat's suggestion on the -current ChangeLog: I now use Kopete.