From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GBqZ8-0008Nr-Sc for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 12 Aug 2006 10:18:03 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k7CADpVY028524; Sat, 12 Aug 2006 10:13:51 GMT Received: from smtp.nildram.co.uk (smtp.nildram.co.uk [195.112.4.54]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k7CADoB2014000 for ; Sat, 12 Aug 2006 10:13:50 GMT Received: from wstn.prhnet (prh.gotadsl.co.uk [81.6.251.123]) by smtp.nildram.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 152DA27329E; Sat, 12 Aug 2006 11:13:48 +0100 (BST) From: Peter Humphrey To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] recommended USE flags Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2006 11:13:01 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.4 References: <44DC7816.3050203@akyasociados.com.ar> <200608120001.54438.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> In-Reply-To: <200608120001.54438.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200608121113.01942.prh@gotadsl.co.uk> X-Archives-Salt: 0fc6a30d-b377-4128-993c-61cdb6073933 X-Archives-Hash: d4e2b66412eb73e1ef24021958f5730d On Friday 11 August 2006 23:01, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > install ufed > > as root: > ufed > > then go down the list, read the descripition, think about it, decide, > next flag, read descriptition, think about it, decide ... I remember reading of a proposed overhaul of the USE flag documentation; has anything come of that? At the moment, many flags are described as "adds support for foo", but that is woefully inadequate. In some cases it means the inclusion of some extra code in packages to handle the data specified by the USE flag, whereas in others it implies a wholesale inclusion of reams of packages. Examples: -- ~ # grep wmf /usr/portage/profiles/use.desc wmf - Adds support for the wmf vector image format ~ # grep X /usr/portage/profiles/use.desc X - Adds support for X11 -- In the wmf case, only a small amount of code is affected, but in the X case you get the entire X Window System! Besides, the "adds support for foo" construction reminds me of BASIC programs we used to see 25 years ago, in which the programmer had included such gems as: LET X=0; REM set X to 0 What's needed is a brief explanation of what including foo implies, and I thought a plan was in place to do that. I'd be happy to help out with such an effort. -- Rgds Peter -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list