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From: Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o>
To: Dan Meltzer <parallelgrapefruit@×××××.com>
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo beeping at me!
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 13:50:24
Message-Id: 1101303855.9000.54.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net
1 On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 23:04 -0500, Dan Meltzer wrote:
2 > Aye Aye, I'm in the middle of building a gigantic rube goldberg, but
3 > Ill get to work on it over the next five days, I should have some time
4 > in there.
5
6 Nice.
7
8 Make sure to make the bug depend on bug #72339, which is a request to
9 have the eclass man pages moved into a separate package.
10
11 > On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 21:15:36 -0500, Chris Gianelloni
12 > <wolf31o2@g.o> wrote:
13 > > On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 18:26 -0500, Dan Meltzer wrote:
14 > > > Uhh... to stick my head in...
15 > > >
16 > > > I'd be willing to write up some documentation for the various
17 > > > eclasses, what format would you like them in? man-page style or what?
18 > >
19 > > Man pages would be great for eclasses that do not already have them, or
20 > > need modifications to their existing man pages.
21 > >
22 > >
23 > >
24 > > > On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 11:20:35 -0500, Chris Gianelloni
25 > > > <wolf31o2@g.o> wrote:
26 > > > > On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 10:55 -0500, Hasan Khalil wrote:
27 > > > > > AFAIK, there is no user documentation for most eclasses' options,
28 > > > > > including this one. That's the whole problem IMO.
29 > > > > >
30 > > > > > But maybe that's just my opinion and it's not shared with anyone else,
31 > > > > > in which case this message should be disregarded.
32 > > > >
33 > > > > Like I say any time a dev mentions anything about a lack of
34 > > > > documentation...
35 > > > >
36 > > > > There will be some as soon as you write it!
37 > > > >
38 > > > > *grin*
39 > > > >
40 > > > > I will admit that I am pretty bad about documentation myself, so it is
41 > > > > definitely something that we all need to work on improving.
42 > > > >
43 > > > > --
44 > > > > Chris Gianelloni
45 > > > > Release Engineering - Operational/QA Manager
46 > > > > Games - Developer
47 > > > > Gentoo Linux
48 > > > >
49 > > > >
50 > > > >
51 > > >
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54 > > >
55 > > --
56 > > Chris Gianelloni
57 > > Release Engineering - Operations/QA Manager
58 > > Games - Developer
59 > > Gentoo Linux
60 > >
61 > >
62 > >
63 >
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65 Chris Gianelloni
66 Release Engineering - Operational/QA Manager
67 Games - Developer
68 Gentoo Linux

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