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From: "Olivier Crête" <tester@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Please enhance your USE descriptions!
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 20:15:11
Message-Id: 1301516070.2683.28.camel@TesterTop4
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Please enhance your USE descriptions! by "Amadeusz Żołnowski"
1 On Wed, 2011-03-30 at 21:56 +0200, Amadeusz Żołnowski wrote:
2 > The main problem is that user might not know what kind of “foo” support
3 > it is. For example I have “pango” USE flag in sys-boot/plymouth. What
4 > would explain to you something like: “Enables support for
5 > x11-libs/pango”? And how you would compare it with “Adds support for
6 > printing text on splash screen and text prompts, e.g. for password”?
7
8 I'm sorry, but that's a terrible example.. In this case, it shouldn't be
9 a use flag at all. We shoudl avoid having use flag where the description
10 is "Adds support for not being completely broken"
11
12 --
13 Olivier Crête
14 tester@g.o
15 Gentoo Developer

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Please enhance your USE descriptions! "Amadeusz Żołnowski" <aidecoe@g.o>