From: "Olivier Crête" <tester@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Please enhance your USE descriptions!
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 16:14:30 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1301516070.2683.28.camel@TesterTop4> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1301514568-sup-9005@ittemni>
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On Wed, 2011-03-30 at 21:56 +0200, Amadeusz Żołnowski wrote:
> The main problem is that user might not know what kind of “foo” support
> it is. For example I have “pango” USE flag in sys-boot/plymouth. What
> would explain to you something like: “Enables support for
> x11-libs/pango”? And how you would compare it with “Adds support for
> printing text on splash screen and text prompts, e.g. for password”?
I'm sorry, but that's a terrible example.. In this case, it shouldn't be
a use flag at all. We shoudl avoid having use flag where the description
is "Adds support for not being completely broken"
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Olivier Crête
tester@gentoo.org
Gentoo Developer
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Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-29 14:24 [gentoo-dev] Please enhance your USE descriptions! justin
2011-03-29 15:08 ` Amadeusz Żołnowski
2011-03-29 15:14 ` Angelo Arrifano
2011-03-29 15:43 ` Amadeusz Żołnowski
2011-03-29 15:10 ` Jeroen Roovers
2011-03-29 16:02 ` Andy Spencer
2011-03-29 16:36 ` Gilles Dartiguelongue
2011-03-30 6:18 ` justin
2011-03-29 17:00 ` Matt Turner
2011-03-29 16:19 ` [gentoo-dev] " Nikos Chantziaras
2011-03-29 18:28 ` [gentoo-dev] " Nirbheek Chauhan
2011-03-31 7:23 ` justin
2011-03-31 7:33 ` Fabian Groffen
2011-03-31 7:41 ` Tomáš Chvátal
2011-03-31 7:51 ` Fabian Groffen
2011-03-31 8:11 ` Tomáš Chvátal
2011-03-31 9:28 ` Jesús J. Guerrero Botella
2011-03-31 7:44 ` justin
2011-03-31 7:57 ` Fabian Groffen
2011-03-31 8:03 ` justin
2011-03-30 16:13 ` James Cloos
2011-03-30 19:56 ` Amadeusz Żołnowski
2011-03-30 20:14 ` Olivier Crête [this message]
2011-03-30 20:31 ` Amadeusz Żołnowski
2011-03-30 21:41 ` Dale
2011-03-30 22:42 ` Aaron W. Swenson
2011-03-30 22:57 ` Dale
2011-03-31 5:47 ` Eray Aslan
2011-03-31 5:59 ` Dale
2011-03-31 6:23 ` Alec Warner
2011-03-31 6:44 ` Amadeusz Żołnowski
2011-03-31 7:04 ` Dale
2011-03-31 7:04 ` Jesús J. Guerrero Botella
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