On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 04:15:21PM -0400, Eben King wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Oct 2008, Eben King wrote:
>
>> Those of you using Pidgin (multi-protocol IM client) for ICQ (early IM
>> protocol) may have been annoyed by spam, owing to Pidgin reverting ICQ's
>> privacy level back to "block only these users" when it goes idle.
> I may have
>> found a fix: "pidgin-privacy-please".
>
> No good, Synaptic declared it to be a "damaged package" and uninstalled it
> -- no choice -- the next time I installed something.
>
> But it worked (or was going to) AFAICT, so if anyone knows a magic
> incantation to change its dependencies, it would be quite useful.
I've found aptitude and synaptic tend to do things I don't want. That's
why, with one-off packages, I always use apt-get install. Not a magic
bullet, but it tends to have fewer side effects. And you get to see what
it's going to do before agreeing to it.
Paul
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