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From: Thilo Bangert <bangert@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New USE flags documentation
Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2007 13:20:38
Message-Id: 200712091419.35442.bangert@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] New USE flags documentation by Jeroen Roovers
1 Jeroen Roovers <jer@g.o> said:
2 > On Sat, 24 Nov 2007 15:10:58 +0100
3 >
4 > Thilo Bangert <bangert@g.o> wrote:
5 > > the idea is really great
6 > >
7 > > [...]
8 > >
9 > > now this needs to be [...] made mandatory for all ebuilds.
10 >
11 > Uh, what?
12 >
13 > Why? If the idea is that great, then why does it need to be mandatory?
14
15 This is one more way the maintainer can document the functionality of the
16 ebuild. IMHO this documentation is so usefull that every ebuild should
17 provide it.
18
19 see the recent blogpost by nichoj
20 http://technicalpickles.com/posts/pidgin-idle-time
21 which supports this reasoning.
22
23 regards
24 Thilo
25
26 >
27 >
28 > Kind regards,
29 > JeR

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