Please describe the problem:
Hi,

libnotify is an hard dep is empathy, which could be annoying in the case where a user never uses this feature (for any reasons).
He can of course just disable it with the preferences panel, but the problem is the following : Why keep the feature in the package, increasing the binary size, and the amont of memory used at run-time, if the user will never use it ?
The more simple to everybody could be enable it if we want to use it (default behavior), or disable it explicitly otherwise. It's a important thing in gentoo community that the user has the choice, and the possibility to customize every packages.

You'll find in attachment two patches:
 - empathy-2.26.1-configure-notify-option.patch : notify support is simply non automagic
 - empathy-2.26.1-client-notify-support.patch : Add macroconstant for conditionnal compilation depending if the notify support was explicitly required or not, and patch empathy-preferences.c to hide the second page of the notebook widget if the notify support was not required.

mrpouet.



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