Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Re: recommended USE flags

[Simon Stelling <blubb@gentoo.org>]

Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
> On Saturday 12 August 2006 22:45, Vladimir G. Ivanovic wrote:
>> On Sat, 2006-08-12 at 22:18 +0200, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
>>> so instead of a short but useful hint, which is enough in 95% of cases,
>> His point is precisely that it's NOT useful enough.
> 
> for him maybe.

I think you misunderstand the entire issue. What's wrong with a more detailed 
description as an addition to the one we already have in use.desc?

> you would still have thousands of descriptions, a lot of them redundand, as a 
> big pile. There would be NO advantage doing this. Instead of a short 
> explanation, you would get tons of useless text...

There would be an advantage, I just doubt it would be worth the effort because 
in most cases reading the ebuild will give you a detailed idea about what it 
does. There are exceptions though, as Duncan pointed out.

>>> Are you insane?
>> Are you rude?
> 
> yes, maybe?

Yes, definitively. You know, you could actually said 'sorry', but that would 
probably be "insane", right?

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Kind Regards,

Simon Stelling
Gentoo/AMD64 Developer
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