On 2/4/08, Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 15:11 +0000, Mick wrote: > > On Monday 04 February 2008, Michael Schmarck wrote: > > > Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Why is gaim no longer in portage? Is it dead upstream? > > > > > > It has been renamed to Pidgin in 2007 to prevent some legal > > > issues with AOL and their AIM product. > > > > From Michael Sullivan's comment shall I assume that you also did not see > the > > portage warning about Gaim-over (pun intended) or perhaps you never had > Gaim > > installed? > > > > Anyone else who can confirm that they have Gaim installed but not seen > the > > portage warning? > > I have gaim installed, and I use it every day, but I haven't seen any > warnings from portage. Will pidgin be able to read my ~/.gaim/* files?
Yes. But be aware that if you keep logs of your IM and chat traffic, that the first time pidgin starts will take a LONG time. But when it's over, you will have everything, or at least I did. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
