Gentoo Archives: gentoo-portage-dev

From: Bart Lauwers <blauwers@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Cc: gentoo-doc@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] coveted features
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 18:14:39
Message-Id: 200312291855.50854.blauwers@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] coveted features by Daniel Robbins
1 All the more reason to build the docs from the code directly with doxygen or
2 whatever. I'm pretty sure nobody writes code with the intent it doesn't get
3 used, from a coder standpoint having documentation helps feature acceptance.
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5 This feature probably is documented but since I can't find that documentation
6 quickly (i.e. just could find it in under 5 minutes) it might as well not
7 exist to the majority of devs. We s'port too many hidden feats.
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9 Anyway we've got lots of docs but were lacking a good taxonomy for them, do we
10 have any librarians helping the docs team? (cc'ing doc to get a reply about
11 this)
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13 So let me rephrase that portage docs need to be complete and up to date at all
14 times (at least an english version, devs should know enough english). Linking
15 the documentation to the code is the only way I can see this happen.
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17 Bart.
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19 On Monday 29 December 2003 00:02, Daniel Robbins wrote:
20 >
21 > This results in the current USE settings. I do think that not too many
22 > people know about auto-USE, so it is somewhat under-utilized.
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