Re: [gentoo-dev] Please enhance your USE descriptions!

[Dale]

Amadeusz Żołnowski wrote:
> Excerpts from Alec Warner's message of Thu Mar 31 08:23:45 +0200 2011:
>
>> On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 5:59 AM, Dale<rdalek1967@×××××.com>  wrote:
>>
>>> Eray Aslan wrote:
>>> In all seriousness, this has been discussed before and it doesn't
>>> get any better.  I'm not sure how to fix it either.  The space for
>>> the description is limited.
>>>
> What is the limit? Anyway we can change it, cannot we? And you can
> always write shortly something better than “Enable support for foo”.
>
>
>

I don't recall the exact amount but it is sort of small.  After all, if 
there was no limit, some would write a book about the flag.  ;-)

>
>> On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 5:59 AM, Dale<rdalek1967@×××××.com>  wrote:
>> Read the ebuild?
>>
> Read-the-ebuild? And maybe unpack the archive, check configure's help,
> read the README, INSTALL and so, and analyze source code to eventually
> find out what the flag does? This that what user is supposed to do for
> every package?
>

If I am expected to read every single thing installed on here, I would 
never get to use the puter for anything else.  I have almost 1,000 
packages on here.  Most of which I really don't need to know the inner 
working of as a user.  USE flags could come in handy tho.  I always 
check them before a upgrade/install.

I was just reading through the USE file, it is a lot better than it used 
to be.  Someone has been doing some work in there.  There are still some 
that I am clueless about but a lot of them are better.  I like these:

directfb - Adds support for DirectFB layer (library for FB devices)
latex - Adds support for LaTeX (typesetting package)

Those two are pretty good to be so short.

Dale

:-)  :-)