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The .service files for libpurple aren't necessary. Their only purpose is to autostart an application if nothing is listening in a particular namespace. We can't autostart something, because there's no way for us to know which client the user wants. If we end up with Pidgin or Finch DBus stuff later, we can use .service files for those if we want autostart functionality.

For information on writing a plugin for Purple, Pidgin or Finch, go
http://pidgin.im/api/ and see the HOWTOs in the "Related Pages"
section.

You can also generate this documentation locally by installing
doxygen and graphviz dot, then running "make docs" in the
source tree.  The documentation will be in the docs/html directory.