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Our Yahoo! protocol has this crappy implementation where it tries to do something clever with the permit/deny setting. Here's how it works: * Yahoo! has only a "deny" list * libpurple keeps a copy of this "deny" list * If you change your permdeny setting to "allow all" or "permit only these users" then the Yahoo! PRPL unblocks everyone on your deny list * If you change your permdeny setting to "allow people in my buddylist" or "block this people below" then the Yahoo! PRPL re-blocks the people in your deny list. This commit changes that behavior slightly. If you set your permdeny setting to "permit only these users" or "block everyone" then the Yahoo! PRPL will now re-block the people in your deny list.

For information on writing a plugin for Purple, Pidgin or Finch, go
http://developer.pidgin.im and click on API.  From there, 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.