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On Saturday 21 August 2004 21:52, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> On Sat, 21 Aug 2004 16:46:15 -0300 Norberto Bensa |
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> <norberto+gentoo-dev@×××××××××.cx> wrote: |
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> | And when you go to use.local.desc all you see is: |
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> | |
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> | cat/package:flag1 - enables flag1 compilation/support |
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> | It doesn't say what flag1 is good for! So you end up Googleing, |
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> | etc... |
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> You might want to file bugs for these... Updating use{,.local}.desc |
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> doesn't take particularly long, and a good description can save users a |
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> lot of time. |
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The problem is that many "even official global useflags" would sometimes |
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require package-level descriptions on their effect. Maybe this should be |
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put in the ebuild itself. |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Gentoo Developer |
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Mail: pauldv@g.o |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |
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