From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25509 invoked from network); 23 Aug 2004 12:25:26 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (156.56.111.197) by lists.gentoo.org with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 23 Aug 2004 12:25:26 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([156.56.111.196] helo=parrot.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BzDt7-0008Ei-P0 for arch-gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 23 Aug 2004 12:25:25 +0000 Received: (qmail 14029 invoked by uid 89); 23 Aug 2004 12:25:07 +0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 16532 invoked from network); 23 Aug 2004 12:25:06 +0000 From: Paul de Vrieze To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 14:23:29 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: <200408212137.55920.mattam@gentoo.org> <200408211646.16009.norberto+gentoo-dev@bensa.ath.cx> <20040821205211.00e9dcb9@snowdrop.home> In-Reply-To: <20040821205211.00e9dcb9@snowdrop.home> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Boundary-02=_BHeKBqkXQ3SeZL/"; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200408231423.29976.pauldv@gentoo.org> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New global USE flag: examples X-Archives-Salt: c640d7e1-e11a-453e-85a3-acf2b90f9945 X-Archives-Hash: 37b742248dda3580afbcc983843b7424 --Boundary-02=_BHeKBqkXQ3SeZL/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Saturday 21 August 2004 21:52, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Sat, 21 Aug 2004 16:46:15 -0300 Norberto Bensa > > 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. The problem is that many "even official global useflags" would sometimes=20 require package-level descriptions on their effect. Maybe this should be=20 put in the ebuild itself. Paul =2D-=20 Paul de Vrieze Gentoo Developer Mail: pauldv@gentoo.org Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net --Boundary-02=_BHeKBqkXQ3SeZL/ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBBKeHBbKx5DBjWFdsRAs62AJ4r0piNHT4xxR3r62LdVV4ZMly+7wCgsNqt 8VZJDu9J3etriJG71o9uH/0= =B6Pf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Boundary-02=_BHeKBqkXQ3SeZL/--