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From: Olivier Crête <tester@g.o>
Subject: Re: Please enhance your USE descriptions!
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 16:14:30 -0400
On Wed, 2011-03-30 at 21:56 +0200, Amadeusz Żołnowski wrote:
> The main problem is that user might not know what kind of “foo” support
> it is. For example I have “pango” USE flag in sys-boot/plymouth. What
> would explain to you something like: “Enables support for
> x11-libs/pango”? And how you would compare it with “Adds support for
> printing text on splash screen and text prompts, e.g. for password”?

I'm sorry, but that's a terrible example.. In this case, it shouldn't be
a use flag at all. We shoudl avoid having use flag where the description
is "Adds support for not being completely broken"

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Olivier Crête
tester@g.o
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