Re: [gentoo-dev] Should "server" be a global use flag?

[Rich Freeman]

On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 12:27 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:
> The reason the info is there is so that users, like me, know what the USE
> flag is for.  Me personally, I still think some of them don't help much and
> need more info but it is better than it used to be.  So, if you can make
> them shorter and users still able to figure out what they do, great.  If
> not, then the info needs to stay.   Us users need it.

++

A description of USE=foo enables foo support is just about useless.
Why even have the description at all in that case?

What I want to know is whether I want foo support.  A description of
"Disables 99% of the functionality in chromium but still lets you
parse the config files from a command line on an embedded system" lets
me know that unless I'm doing something exotic it isn't for me.

A long sentence is probably the right level of detail.  Two sentences
is probably warranted if messing with the flag can cause havoc.

Rich