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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New global USE flag: examples
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2004 20:52:11 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040821205211.00e9dcb9@snowdrop.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200408211646.16009.norberto+gentoo-dev@bensa.ath.cx>

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On Sat, 21 Aug 2004 16:46:15 -0300 Norberto Bensa
<norberto+gentoo-dev@bensa.ath.cx> wrote:
| And when you go to use.local.desc all you see is:
| 
|  cat/package:flag1 - enables flag1 compilation/support
| 
| It doesn't say what flag1 is good for! So you end up Googleing, etc...

You might want to file bugs for these... Updating use{,.local}.desc
doesn't take particularly long, and a good description can save users a
lot of time.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Sparc, MIPS, Vim, Fluxbox)
Mail            : ciaranm at gentoo.org
Web             : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm


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  reply	other threads:[~2004-08-21 19:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-21 19:37 [gentoo-dev] New global USE flag: examples Matthieu Sozeau
2004-08-21 19:46 ` Norberto Bensa
2004-08-21 19:52   ` Ciaran McCreesh [this message]
2004-08-21 20:15     ` Norberto Bensa
2004-08-21 20:28       ` Ciaran McCreesh
2004-08-23 12:25         ` Paul de Vrieze
2004-08-21 22:43       ` Stroller
2004-08-23 12:23     ` Paul de Vrieze
2004-08-23 14:34       ` Tuan Van
2004-08-21 19:48 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2004-08-21 19:59   ` Carsten Lohrke
2004-08-21 20:11   ` Matthieu Sozeau
2004-08-22  0:27 ` Karl Trygve Kalleberg
2004-08-22  0:52   ` Michael Sterrett -Mr. Bones.-
2004-08-22  2:34     ` Karl Trygve Kalleberg
2004-08-22  3:44       ` Spider
2004-08-22  6:52         ` Mike Frysinger
2004-08-22 13:45 ` Matthieu Sozeau
2004-08-22 19:12   ` [gentoo-dev] " Michael Sterrett -Mr. Bones.-
2004-08-22 23:28     ` Matthieu Sozeau
2004-08-23 12:30     ` Paul de Vrieze
2004-08-23 14:36       ` Mike Frysinger
2004-08-23 15:39         ` Matthieu Sozeau

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