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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Please enhance your USE descriptions!
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:58:54
Message-Id: 4D93B574.5090502@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Please enhance your USE descriptions! by "Aaron W. Swenson"
1 Aaron W. Swenson wrote:
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5 > On 03/30/2011 05:41 PM, Dale wrote:
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7 >> Amadeusz Żołnowski wrote:
8 >>
9 >>> Justin has pointed problem which is worth our attention. It is not just
10 >>> me being pissed off when reading „Enable support for foo”, there are
11 >>> many users complaining about that.
12 >>>
13 >>>
14 >> +1 Some descriptions may as well not have one at all. May as well
15 >> Google the flag and the package and see what, if anything, it returns.
16 >>
17 >> Dale
18 >>
19 >> :-) :-)
20 >>
21 >>
22 > More often than not it just returns the Gentoo USE flag description.
23 > Either from g.o itself, or g-p.com which duplicates the same description.
24 >
25 > Every now and then you get real lucky and there's a post on f.g.o that
26 > comes close to telling you what it does.
27 >
28 > - - Aaron
29 >
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31 That was why I said "if anything". Usually, I get just what you are
32 describing which gives about zero help.
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34 That said, with the limits the description has, I'm not sure how to
35 improve it. It doesn't have much room to expand.
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37 Dale
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39 :-) :-)