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I've been running Gentoo on my server for about a year now, but it's |
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only this week I've been able to install it on a desktop machine. So |
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today I'm doing a load of emerging of all those essential packages that |
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one has on every system one owns, and I'm tweaking more USE flags than |
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usual. |
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Can I ask you to be helpful in your USE flag descriptions, please..? |
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Compare: |
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$ grep lua /usr/portage/profiles/use.* |
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/usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc:net-www/elinks:lua - enable lua |
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support |
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$ grep curses /usr/portage/profiles/use.* |
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/usr/portage/profiles/use.desc:ncurses - Adds ncurses support (console |
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display library) |
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/usr/portage/profiles/use.desc:slang - Adds support for the slang text |
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display library (it's like ncurses, but different) |
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It would have saved me a Google if the lua flag was described as "Add |
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lua support (a language designed for extending applications)". The |
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latter two tell me exactly what I need to know. |
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I'm sure such an terse description is the exception rather than the |
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rule, and that it's just an oversight because the dev who put it in |
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there was tired, in a hurry &/or thought everyone knows what lua is, so |
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I hope this will be taken as nothing more than a gentle reminder from |
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one of the popcorn-eating, booing masses in the cheap-seats, who |
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wouldn't be here at all if he didn't think you all make such a GREAT |
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DISTRO. |
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Stroller. |
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