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On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 2:24 PM, justin <jlec@g.o> wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> the descriptions of USE flags should explain what the USE is good for. |
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> In my opinion some thing like |
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> Enables foo intergration |
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> or |
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> Enables support for foo |
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> if it isn't totally clear what "foo" is, sucks!! There are many, many |
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> description which do not tell me as a user without googling what I could |
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> enable or not. That doesn't make gentoo very user friendly! |
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> So please enhance you descriptions!! |
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> Thanks justin |
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One USE flag I remember in particular bothering me was |
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gnome-extra/gnome-games' guile USE flag. |
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The global description says "guile - Adds support for the guile Scheme |
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interpreter" but this flag is actually determines whether a number of |
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games are installed by this package. |
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There are lots of cases like this that need a local use flag that says |
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what each flag actually does for the package. |
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Matt |
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