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On 03/29/2011 08:00 PM, Matt Turner wrote: |
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> On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 2:24 PM, justin<jlec@g.o> wrote: |
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>> Hi, |
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>> the descriptions of USE flags should explain what the USE is good for. |
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>> In my opinion some thing like |
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>> Enables foo intergration |
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>> or |
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>> Enables support for foo |
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>> if it isn't totally clear what "foo" is, sucks!! There are many, many |
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>> description which do not tell me as a user without googling what I could |
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>> enable or not. That doesn't make gentoo very user friendly! |
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>> So please enhance you descriptions!! |
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>> Thanks justin |
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> One USE flag I remember in particular bothering me was |
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> gnome-extra/gnome-games' guile USE flag. |
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> The global description says "guile - Adds support for the guile Scheme |
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> interpreter" but this flag is actually determines whether a number of |
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> games are installed by this package. |
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The most extreme one I remember is the "gtk" flag of GCC: |
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"Adds support for x11-libs/gtk+ (The GIMP Toolkit)" |
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Hmm, OK. So without that flag, GCC won't be able to build gtk? Or gimp? |
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Or any software using gtk? |
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