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Quoting Philippe Lafoucrière <lafou@×××××××.fr>: |
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> On Monday 08 December 2003 13:57, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: |
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> > I'd like to propose that we add per-package USE flag descriptions to |
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> the |
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> > package pages on http://packages.gentoo.org. I can't tell you how |
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> many |
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> > times I've sat and wondered what effect a particular flag has on a |
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> > particular package, and the use.desc descriptions are much too brief |
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> > give any kind of useful detail. For example: |
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> > "What effect does USE="xml2" have on xfree?" |
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> > "Why does w3m need USE="imlib"? |
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> > "Why should I keep USE="berkdb"? |
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> please see /usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc |
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That's closer to what I'm talking about, but that only lists the effects of |
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local (non-standard) USE flags. I'm talking about local package-specific |
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descriptions for global flags. |
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