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 1GByVP-0003su-B9 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 12 Aug 2006 18:46:43 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k7CIiWBb011836; Sat, 12 Aug 2006 18:44:32 GMT Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k7CIiVub031011 for ; Sat, 12 Aug 2006 18:44:31 GMT Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1GByTC-0007vJ-0h for gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 12 Aug 2006 20:44:26 +0200 Received: from ip68-230-97-209.ph.ph.cox.net ([68.230.97.209]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 12 Aug 2006 20:44:26 +0200 Received: from 1i5t5.duncan by ip68-230-97-209.ph.ph.cox.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 12 Aug 2006 20:44:26 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org From: "Duncan" <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> Subject: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Re: recommended USE flags Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2006 18:44:17 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <44DC7816.3050203@akyasociados.com.ar> <200608120001.54438.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> <200608121113.01942.prh@gotadsl.co.uk> <44DDCE59.5000901@gentoo.org> 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=UTF-8 X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip68-230-97-209.ph.ph.cox.net User-Agent: pan 0.107 (Umi De No Jisatsu) Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 94d0681f-af81-4eea-80b2-e4a45f4924f8 X-Archives-Hash: 5fb907e650a08eef4446235141d60080 Simon Stelling posted 44DDCE59.5000901@gentoo.org, excerpted below, on Sat, 12 Aug 2006 14:49:29 +0200: > Duncan wrote: >> What's actually >> needed is a use.local.desc that includes all packages with all flag >> listings and a description of what each does in each package. > > We already have that documentation.. It's just not written in english > but in bash ;) In some cases, yes. However, take that pan example. The ebuild makes the dependency on libgnome clear, but it doesn't say the only thing that dependency does is allow pan to use the browser configured for gnome. That's a pretty major entanglement for the benefit, particularly when one can simply set the $BROWSER var instead, as an alternative. (BTW, the basis of that example is changing. Looks like Charles is going back to having a pan preferences config entry for it. The point still stands, tho. That's an awful big dependency for a relatively small benefit, and while the ebuild says gnomelib, it says nothing about what the gnomelib dependency actually /does/.) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list