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Hi! |
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I just opened this in gentoo-portage-dev, but Jason Stubbs told me my |
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ideas are either bad or belong to THIS list, so i try my luck again... |
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I'd like to have a functionality that prints out what the useflags of a |
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ebuild are good for. Some are obvious, others are not. Example: |
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The useflag "xprint" sounds like printing support, but doesn't tell if |
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you need it if you use cups or the kde-printing system or... whatever. |
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Jason stated: |
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Take the USE flag "perl", for example. It has the description "Adds |
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support/bindings for the Perl language." but for mysql setting it enables the |
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installation of some support scripts that just happen to be written in perl. |
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Another thing is, that i'd like to get some additional information on |
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some ebuilds. |
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Like HOWTOs, known issues, configuration help, related ebuilds (not |
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dependant but useful together) |
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In my opinion, the easiest way would be a wiki. |
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Ebuilds could contain an additional field "EBUILDNOTES" or the like, |
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providing the URL. |
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An even more simple way would be to have portage tools (eix, emerge) |
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print an automatically generated link like |
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http://www.gentoo-wiki.com/Ebuild:www-client/mozilla-firefox |
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as mediawiki pages always have a discussion page attached, this could be |
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used to get in touch with the maintainers of that package. (Only if they |
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want that. This could be noted on the page) |
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thanks for reading and answering :) |
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Caliga |
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