Pidgin.im developers bashing Slackware
For those that don’t know pidgin is the new name for software previously known as GAIM.
From TFA:
“We have no developers using Slack, and furthermore, several of us actively dislike that distribution for its history of broken installs, as well as for its non-existent package management. You cannot create true packages for Slack.”
I’ve seen few comments on slackware community irc channels about this: “clueless”, “lie”, “dishonest”…
I’ll add RETARDED to the list…
Kopete rulez anyway 
I saw that Dominian also wrote about this on his blog.
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UPDATE:
Fellow Slacker wrote to the pidgin mail list: So long, and thanks for the insults.
Another Slacker wrote to the same list: about the rotten press you give Slackware….
The page on pidgin.im is modified. Original is here.
Even The Man himself has spoken about this. From the slackware-current changelog:
xap/pidgin-2.0.0-i486-2.tgz: Here’s a little excerpt from:
http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/WhyPackagesExist
“We have no developers using Slack, and furthermore, several of us actively
dislike that distribution for its history of broken installs, as well as
for its non-existant package management. You cannot create true packages
for Slack.”
Well, I’m somewhat shocked by this, having never (to my knowledge) done
anything to any of the former GAIM or Pidgin developers to make them mad at
me, Slackware, or anyone on the Slackware team. I guess if they feel it’s
not possible to make a “true” Pidgin package for Slackware, there’s no point
in continuing to try. Having put out 7 security advisories on GAIM, I’m
quite sure there will be less work here if Pidgin is not included.
The Pidgin package has been moved to the “unsupported” directory. For the
record, I do not actively dislike Pidgin or any of their developers, but I
do plan to use Kopete from now on.