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From: Dale <rdalek1967@...>
Subject: Re: Please enhance your USE descriptions!
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 17:57:56 -0500
Aaron W. Swenson wrote:
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> On 03/30/2011 05:41 PM, Dale wrote:
>    
>> Amadeusz Żołnowski wrote:
>>      
>>> Justin has pointed problem which is worth our attention. It is not just
>>> me being pissed off when reading „Enable support for foo”, there are
>>> many users complaining about that.
>>>
>>>        
>> +1  Some descriptions may as well not have one at all.  May as well
>> Google the flag and the package and see what, if anything, it returns.
>>
>> Dale
>>
>> :-)  :-)
>>
>>      
> More often than not it just returns the Gentoo USE flag description.
> Either from g.o itself, or g-p.com which duplicates the same description.
>
> Every now and then you get real lucky and there's a post on f.g.o that
> comes close to telling you what it does.
>
> - - Aaron
>    

That was why I said "if anything".  Usually, I get just what you are 
describing which gives about zero help.

That said, with the limits the description has, I'm not sure how to 
improve it.  It doesn't have much room to expand.

Dale

:-)  :-)


References:
Please enhance your USE descriptions!
-- justin
Re: Please enhance your USE descriptions!
-- James Cloos
Re: Please enhance your USE descriptions!
-- Amadeusz Żołnowski
Re: Please enhance your USE descriptions!
-- Olivier Crête
Re: Please enhance your USE descriptions!
-- Amadeusz Żołnowski
Re: Please enhance your USE descriptions!
-- Dale
Re: Please enhance your USE descriptions!
-- Aaron W. Swenson
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