No IRC support in Fedora 12?!?

[Matthias Clasen]

On Sun, 2009-10-11 at 16:09 -0400, Brian Pepple wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-10-10 at 22:29 -0600, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> > On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 10:40:47PM +0000, Valent Turkovic wrote:
> > > 
> > > Are Fedora developers aware of that? Is there some fallback plan to
> > > include IRC support in default Fedora Desktop spin in some other way?
> > 
> > This is a fair point, since we do have live help channels on IRC and
> > not some other sort of messaging standard right now.  The
> > telepathy-idle package is 166KB according to yum info.  Does this
> > present a problem?
> 
> No,the reason we didn't have a requires on tp-idle is that at the time
> (I think this was around the F10 timeframe, but I could be wrong) we
> didn't feel that it was ready to be installed by default.  If folks feel
> we should add the requires, I've got no problem with that.
> 

I think we do have some nominal irc support via telepathy-haze, but it
is probably better to pull in -idle.