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Simon Stelling <blubb@g.o> posted 44DDCE59.5000901@g.o, |
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excerpted below, on Sat, 12 Aug 2006 14:49:29 +0200: |
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> Duncan wrote: |
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>> What's actually |
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>> needed is a use.local.desc that includes all packages with all flag |
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>> listings and a description of what each does in each package. |
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> We already have that documentation.. It's just not written in english |
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> but in bash ;) |
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In some cases, yes. However, take that pan example. The ebuild makes the |
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dependency on libgnome clear, but it doesn't say the only thing that |
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dependency does is allow pan to use the browser configured for gnome. |
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That's a pretty major entanglement for the benefit, particularly when one |
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can simply set the $BROWSER var instead, as an alternative. |
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(BTW, the basis of that example is changing. Looks like Charles is going |
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back to having a pan preferences config entry for it. The point still |
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stands, tho. That's an awful big dependency for a relatively small |
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benefit, and while the ebuild says gnomelib, it says nothing about what |
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the gnomelib dependency actually /does/.) |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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